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You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. In fact, ...
The corpse flower is endangered for a multitude of reasons, including climate change, habitat destruction, and invasive ...
Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world.
Commonly called the "corpse flower," Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, ...
Newly published research suggests that despite all the pampering corpse flower plants receive from their curators, ...
The soil has to have a lot of aeration to prevent rotting, and the greenhouse’s temperature must be above 65 degrees at all times. San Jose State got its corpse flower as a 6-inch seedling from ...
Hint: The corpse flower's perfume is said to resemble the odor of rotting flesh, hence its name. These sweetly scented, light-colored flowers bloom in the late afternoon and evening, just in time ...
Nature can be breathtaking. A plant that’s become the star attraction at a Winnipeg greenhouse is taking that a little too literally. And anyone brave enough to take a sniff of the Voodoo Lily — or ...
A finicky flower Nicknamed for its smell, the corpse flower emits an odor that mimics rotting flesh when it blooms. A clever evolutionary trick, the pungent odor attracts flies and carrion beetles ...