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Solandra maxima, the most beautiful cousin of the potato.... :o)
And a nice shot as well.

Very striking blossom! Nicely captured =)
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LOL@Fizgig! Fortunately smell can not get uploaded with some pictures, poor David suffered all alone for our enjoyment! ;o)

Oh, you wrote striking, not stinking. :) I must have been reading that in haste ...
Cup of Gold can be a true nuisiance. I once had one blossoming by the outdoor sitting area and near the only window of a vacation appartment on Fuerteventura and live a couple of days and nights with it. It was looking amazing, just like David's, and at first I loved it, as it was just near odorless but so pretty during the early evening, yet this impession did change after sunset.
The Calice Vines do at night smell very sweet and exotic, and some garden centers trying to sell their stuff actually mention the scent positively, yet it comes with an unfortunate twist. Dependant on species it's more coconut, banana or vanilla-like but it's not all pure, I would describe it a bit like an untidy room where overpowering perfume, sun ointment, scented candle or somesuch blatantly masks the musky and putrid undertones. With the morning sun, smell goes away as if never there.
It's like some other decorative nightshades with large blossoms -- they reek overpowering and a bit to earthy, but they will not do so all the time just for there is an open blossom. Petunias are best known to give forth this type of controlled bouts of strange strong smells.