They bloom at similar times and often the same areas, but have strikingly different flowers and fruits. Common names include yellow mandarin and spotted mandarin, or yellow fairy bells and spotted fairy bells. Similar because they’re cousins. Different because…?
Named after resemblance to an exquisitely carved pipe (such as Meerschaums). Flies enter an invitingly rancid tunnel mouth and traverse the passageway to the deepest part of the flower, only to discover that no delightful rotting food awaits… and there’s no way out.
Jacks are wild. There are male and female ‘jacks’. Both deceive: they offer no reward. Both kidnap, but females (sometimes called Jill-in-the-Pulpit) proceed to murder. And the ‘jack’ in the pulpit isn’t even the flower—they’re hidden in the pulpit at Jack’s feet!
