sorry , stick your neck out time. Couldn't turn it around for some reason.

Wow - that is spectacular! I'm afraid I have no idea, but I can't wait to find out!

Oh wow, I dont know what it is but it looks really unusual to me.

Dracunculus vulgaris, the Voodoo lily, copy and paste the link below for info

http://www.paghat.com/voodoolily.html

Wow!!!!!! Love that...... And its name!!! Ty for link Mg....... Did u see my triffid hedge question? Xxx still stuck in ehst it is x

Oh MG - there's a photo on that page that looks just like the spoof question the other day! Are you sure you're not having us on??? Lol!!

Thanks MG. It's in a residential homes garden close to me. Was evidently first planted 2 years ago in a plastic bag and this is the first show. Thanks again.

Very interesting MG! Who's adding it to their Christmas wish list?

Don't plant it too close to the house - it's pollinated by flies and smells like rotting meat

But only for the few hours until the flies have done their work. I stopped a group near one, once, to talk about another plant and almost corpsed watching them look suspiciously at the person next to them.

Very Goth isnt it. Almost makes you want to do a macabre planting area with all these wierd & wonderfull plants

I'm with Moon Grower on this one.