Corpse flower numbers are decreasing worldwide. Discover why conservation efforts struggle to maintain a healthy population.

Incomplete data results in reduced genetic diversity and contributes to population decline. Commonly known as the “corpse ...

Commonly called the "corpse flower," Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized. Without ...

hence its "corpse flower" nickname, which attracts carrion beetles and flies that help with pollination. "The blooms are rare and also short-lived, so we only get a small window to study these ...

“That is not true for the corpse flower. The second you walk into its ... including in humans – inbreeding among small populations results in a suite of evolutionarily disadvantageous traits ...

LOUIS (KMOX) - A Corpse Flower is now blooming at the Missouri ... The plant is known for it's intense, foul odor emitted from a tall spike of small flowers. The smell and plant coloration ...

Inside the tropical house, a small greenhouse that replicates the stifling humidity of a tropical island, it’s impossible to miss the titan arum, a 7-foot-tall plant known as the corpse flower ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The corpse flower is one of several "exceptional plants ... Looking to substantiate these conclusions, Murrell performed a small molecular genetics study on 65 plants. By sequencing the plants ...