My husband and I bought our house last year and this plant was in the front garden...It's just recently "bloomed" again and now there's 7 instead of the original 1. We have no clue what it is and would really like to know. Please Help!
Spectacular but malodorous, quite like a dead rat - effectively making the part of the garden they occupy unuseable at flowering time. Christopher Lloyd wrote that the smell passed quickly and then the still-open flowers could even be cut and taken to events. That's fine as long as all the flowers in a patch open on the same day!