Voodoo Lily

Plants > Arums

The Voodoo Lily (Sauromatum venosum), also known as the monarch of the East, is a bizarre and hypnotic tuberous perennial belonging to the arum family Araceae. Hailing from the mist-shrouded temperate and subtropical foothills of the Himalayas, this extraordinary...

Phalaenopsis Bulbophyllum

Plants > Orchids

The Phalaenopsis Bulbophyllum (Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis) is one of the botanical world’s most astonishing and colossal epiphytic orchids. Indigenous exclusively to the steaming lowland rainforests of New Guinea, this botanical wonder produces enormous,...

Beccari’s Bulbophyllum

Plants > Orchidaceae & Epiphytic Orchids

Beccari’s Bulbophyllum (Bulbophyllum beccarii) is undeniably one of the most monumental and bizarre epiphytic orchids on Earth, endemic strictly to the ancient primary dipterocarp rainforests of Borneo. Named in honor of the renowned 19th-century Italian...

Lantern Stinkhorn

Fungi > Phallaceae & Stinkhorns

The Lantern Stinkhorn (Lysurus mokusin), also celebrated historically as the ribbed lizard claw stinkhorn, is one of the most architecturally distinctive and visually striking macrofungi in the order Phallales. Originating in the ancient broadleaf woodlands and bamboo...

Dune Stinkhorn

Fungi > Stinkhorns

The Dune Stinkhorn (Phallus hadriani) is an intriguing, specialized saprotrophic fungus adapted to the harsh, wind-swept maritime sand dunes of Europe and North America. Easily distinguished from the common woodland stinkhorn by its distinctive pale pink to deep...