This is my post for #freewriters 2479 prompt fragrant flower hosted by @mariannewest
People say not to touch or smell the Angel Trumpet flower, but I can handle it and smell it without ill effects. I like the way they smell. As for it being a hallucinogenic flower, I could not tell you anything about that, what I can tell you is it is a beautiful flower and bush, it is one of my favorites, of course, I can not pick just one, I love all of my flowers if the smell good or not.
This fragrant flower is the Fanji Pani or Plumeria, they call them both names, it is the flower Hawaiian leis are made of. I can bury my nose in it, if you could smell Heaven, it would be this flower.
The Bird of Paradise has no smell, I guess if you were as pretty as it is, you do not need to have a pleasant smell.
Out of all the flowers that I grow, the plain old periwinkle has to be in my top 5. I think this is because where I grew up, it was one of the only flowers that could survive in sandy soil. We had pink ones and white ones around our home. They have no smell but the memory it gives me, warms my heart.
Some plants give flowers not for their smell but for the food they can produce, the flower is a large red thing that hangs from the bottom of the stalk as it opens, bananas appear between the flower pedals. It is an amazing flower to watch grow.
Dragon fruit has a huge beautiful flower
When the flower dies it will give you a dragon fruit, I find it weird that this fruit comes from that big white flower.
I would never say that the carrion flower was a fragrant flower it is also known as a corpse flower or stinking flower, it emits an odor that smells like rotting flesh. I would not advise smelling it, but I love the way it looks like a huge starfish.
This is the other only flower that would grow where my childhood home was and it is a fragrant flower. My mother got a cutting from one of my Aunts in the late 1950s or early 1960s and planted it next to her wash house, I remember it being taller than the building and full of roses. When she moved to her home in the 1980s, she got another cutting from the same Aunt and just stuck it in the ground, she lived there until she passed, three years ago. I took cutting from it and planted it at my home. Every time I go by it, I have to stop and smell the roses and the memories of my mother fill my heart. Also, Rudy loves to eat the flowers, he is my pet rabbit.
photos are of my flowers