Dracunculus is a small genus of Mediterranean aroids in the Araceae family.
Dracunculus muscivorus (syn. Helicodiceros muscivorus) is pictured and described on the Helicodiceros wiki page.
Dracunculus vulgaris will make a sensation when it blooms in your garden. Every fly in the neighborhood will arrive. The spathe is nearly a yard long and eighteen inches wide; the spadix is the size of an adult's forearm. The stench is the typical aroid stench. This grows in a protected spot in the Maryland garden of Jim McKenney who took this photo of the flower. It has been grown in north European gardens since at least the sixteenth century: it was figured by Fuchs and Gerard. The second photo, of the emerging foliage, was taken March 2007 by Jay Yourch.
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