However, if overly wet these plants become vulnerable to rot and will die out in spots.
CARRION FLOWERS PATCH
In sandy Palm Springs soil a single cutting of mine turned into a huge 3-foot patch under spray irrigation. This is why both the red and yellow forms make great groundcovers for shaded areas where many other succulents fail. Move the container into shade for a month or more until roots appear, then plant out into your garden. The best way is to fill a low, wide container with moist sand and set the cutting on top, pressing it down slightly to anchor it. If you insert cuttings into rooting medium, often the buried part will rot away before roots form. This is explained by their creeping growth habit in the wild that develops root nodes on the underparts of each stem where they contact sandy ground. I discovered at the garden that cuttings that fall to the sandy floor and are left there tended to root much faster than those I planted in pots. That’s why it’s important to obtain cuttings or buy plants when blooming to make sure you are getting the color you want. The plants of both these varieties are identical until they bloom, so once summer heat brings them into reproductive mode, you can tell them apart. She features wavy red ridges and more hair, and due to this enormous size, these are the biggest stinkers of all. But it is the flower that puts the carrion in the name. She reclines arrayed in creamy yellow to mimic puss exuding from a carcass. The flowers are awesome to look at but not so pleasant to the nose while indoors. The queen of carrion flowers is another form of the same species the diameter of a dinner plate when fully opened. With no flesh to feed on they die quickly, accumulating numbers until the flower finally fades. A magnifying glass will show you these specs are in fact newly hatched fly maggots from eggs laid on the flower surface. Study a new blossom closely and very soon small white specks appear at the very center where scent is most potent. The red flowers best show us this plant’s strategy for pollination.
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