Corpse Flower Sprite

I have the great pleasure of being on the Aurora Wings DT.

This means that I not only get to create with all of Mitzi's incredible

artwork, but that I get to make suggestions as to possible future images.

Well actually, if you are a member of the Aurora Wings facebook group

you can make all the suggestions you want, and eventually Mitzi may get

around to drawing up one of your suggestions!

But I digress...

I have always been slightly enamoured with the magical carrion flower, or

also known as the (way cooler sounding), corpse flower. 

This beautiful plant grows in the rainforests of Sumatra.

The bloom is enormous, and smells of rotting meat, or really smelly gym socks. 

It only blooms once, every two years. So it is a pretty big deal every 

time one blooms. The bloom only usually lasts for 24 to 48 hours.

 One just bloomed in Missouri Botanical Garden, and one also bloomed 

in a man's backyard in Florida. He has been growing it for 12 years from a seed.

This is the first time it has bloomed. He has seven total plants that he has
grown from seeds he purchased for $100 each. So cool!

Again, I digress...

See? I said I was a bit enamoured with this plant.

Soooo, 

I asked Mitzi if she would draw this incredible plant as one of her Sprites.

And she did!

Wanna see him?

Are you ready?

Isn't he delightfully menacing?

And dig those awesome, squiggly stench lines!

And the flies, too!

I loved coloring this odiferous guy up!

I think he'd make a great/funny "get well" card. 

He is now available in the Aurora Wings digi shop.

Get him before his stench fades!