It is listed as toxic (especially to cats) and wash hands but I wouldn’t be freaking out over it. Just don’t allow pets or children to eat them.
“Corpse flowers” (Amorphophallus titanum and related species) are called that not because they will make you a corpse but instead because they smell like a corpse when they bloom.
tinycarnivoroussheep
IIRC they’re popular for grave decor in Japan because they bloomed in time for the Obon festival, which is the ancestor/spooky festival.
Lovenotknown
I think are pretty I want to snatch them up every time I see them ( last year was my first year seeing them lol).
Warp-n-weft
There are cultural practices that say that picking them brings misfortune and misery. It isn’t literally dangerous, but it is considered a bad idea by some cultures.
The flowers symbolize death.
HedonistCat
Do these grow native where you are?
Careless_HartBrake69
this is literally some superstitious bullshit you’ve encountered. this flower WILL NOT hurt you from just touching it. jfc
RememberKoomValley
In Japan they’re known as tomb lilies, because they bloom around Obon, the holiday that memorializes the dead (with altars, grave tidying, lanterns, and so on). So they can be seen as a bit sinister in those traditions, or if not sinister at least representative of death and the dead. In the American South they’re often called hurricane lilies, again because of their bloom period; I’ve also seen them referred to as naked ladies, because the flowers spring up before the leaves have grown in.
Don’t let your pets chew on them; they’re quite toxic to cats, but that requires ingestion, unlike with true lilies where even encountering a bit of pollen can be lethal to a housecat.
They’re not dangerous to you as long as you’re not licking your hands or something.
nimpatti
pretty. love them in the vintage coke bottle
ScoogyShoes
That’s not a corpse flower. It’s a spider lily. You’d smell an amorphallus titanum.
Icy_Bottle_2634
They are listed as toxic certainly but you are not in danger unless your eating a bunch of them or rubbing the juices into your orifices. I think they are so pretty
OppositeChocolate687
if you have cats or dogs do not keep this in your house
especially cats, because they jump on furniture to investigate and eat/bite things that are new in the house
*they are highly toxic to your pets (that goes for all lilies)
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That is a red spider lily aka Lycoris radiata.
It is listed as toxic (especially to cats) and wash hands but I wouldn’t be freaking out over it. Just don’t allow pets or children to eat them.
“Corpse flowers” (Amorphophallus titanum and related species) are called that not because they will make you a corpse but instead because they smell like a corpse when they bloom.
IIRC they’re popular for grave decor in Japan because they bloomed in time for the Obon festival, which is the ancestor/spooky festival.
I think are pretty I want to snatch them up every time I see them ( last year was my first year seeing them lol).
There are cultural practices that say that picking them brings misfortune and misery. It isn’t literally dangerous, but it is considered a bad idea by some cultures.
The flowers symbolize death.
Do these grow native where you are?
this is literally some superstitious bullshit you’ve encountered. this flower WILL NOT hurt you from just touching it. jfc
In Japan they’re known as tomb lilies, because they bloom around Obon, the holiday that memorializes the dead (with altars, grave tidying, lanterns, and so on). So they can be seen as a bit sinister in those traditions, or if not sinister at least representative of death and the dead. In the American South they’re often called hurricane lilies, again because of their bloom period; I’ve also seen them referred to as naked ladies, because the flowers spring up before the leaves have grown in.
Don’t let your pets chew on them; they’re quite toxic to cats, but that requires ingestion, unlike with true lilies where even encountering a bit of pollen can be lethal to a housecat.
They’re not dangerous to you as long as you’re not licking your hands or something.
pretty. love them in the vintage coke bottle
That’s not a corpse flower. It’s a spider lily. You’d smell an amorphallus titanum.
They are listed as toxic certainly but you are not in danger unless your eating a bunch of them or rubbing the juices into your orifices. I think they are so pretty
if you have cats or dogs do not keep this in your house
especially cats, because they jump on furniture to investigate and eat/bite things that are new in the house
*they are highly toxic to your pets (that goes for all lilies)