Produces big, dark-red flowers in autumn. They are, flat and densely covered by long hair at the centre that remember the fur of a dead animal. The moderate carrion smell of the flowers attracts flies.
Produces large star fish-shaped deep brown-purple flowers with transverse brow to whitish corrugation. The flowers are densely covered by long purplish hairs at the centre that remember the fur of a dead animal.
Flowers are smooth and shiny, the lobes are wide dull flesh-coloured becoming creamy white in the centre. Along the edge of the corolla there are vibratile hairs which form a fringe. The hairs hardly start trembling in the slightest breeze.
Stapelia atrosanguinea (Piaranthus atrosanguineus) is a distinct stapeliad characterized by short lived dark bloody-red flowers of elaborate design and beauty.
