I have a plant that I grew from a cutting a friend gave me. It produces a beautiful flower that looks like a large, slightly hairy starfish. Unfortunately, the flower smells like rotten meat and ...

The starfish flower cactus is startling to behold and smell. The cactus has light yellow blooms with red squiggly lines all over. The blooms are almost a foot across, so big that they just about ...

My husband Ralph he bent down for a closer look at the large starfish-shaped blooms that had spread out of the flowerbed and sprawled across the driveway. “It’s supposed to smell like rotten meat,” I ...

Question: I recently purchased two Stapelia, or starfish flower succulents. The first is planted in a west-facing courtyard. Right now, it gets only sporadic sun, but will get lots more as the season ...

I have a plant that I grew from a cutting a friend gave me. It produces a beautiful flower that looks like a large, slightly hairy starfish. Unfortunately, the flower smells like rotten meat and ...

This time of year the Stapeliads, a rare group African succulents, come into full bloom amidst desert gardens. With enormous flowers the size of a large opened hand, borne profusely on low growing ...