Bog brush plant?

Hi everyone.

My wife and kids call this my "bog brush plant". I'm sure it must have a better name. It started off as a small corm which didn't do anything the first year. Then sprouted a flower stalk the second year. It has split each year, and now produces 6 or 7 flower stalks from what looks like a mass of 3 or 4 corms; it stands about 80cm tall. I broke a piece off one last year and the process seems to be starting over again in another pot.

Can anyone help with an ID.

Best regards
Ned

 

By the way, the flowers stink like rotting meat and the flies love it.

 

Eucomis autumnalis.

 

Thanks

 

Definitely a Eucomis.
Not sure its autumnalis

NO. I think you are right Pal.

 

Gosh, when I saw the title of this thread I remembered a plant I had for many years that I brought from the UK ... here is the ID of it ...

http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/toilet-brush.18654/

I wonder if it is still hiding in my rockery under the Osteospermum which have taken over now .... must look over the weekend ...

 

pineapple lilly is it's common name

 

Not E.autumnalis (has pure white flowers and plain stems), but Eucomis bicolor. E.bicolor has the picotee(?) edge to the flowers and the mottled stems the same as this one. 80cm would be quite a height for E.autumnalis too I think...........

 

Sorry, meant to get back with an alteration to my original, but been a bit busy.

 

First time that I've heard it described as smelling of rotting meat though...........