If you smell a rotting corpse, it could be one of two things: an actual rotting corpse, or—if you’re lucky—just a giant smelly flower called titan arum. Now, scientists have identified the molecular ...
T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling the decaying finger of a buried giant pushes up from the ...
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which resembles ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Corpse Flower, known as Amorphophallus titanum, is estimated to bloom in Raleigh between August 2 and August 4. You can experience the flower at Juniper Level Botanic Garden from ...
The Titan Arum, or corpse flower, has become a rockstar in the plant world for its unpredictable displays, and more notoriously, its putrid stench of rotting flesh. What is it? The very large ...
Delphine Farmer receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, and the W.M. Keck ...
Deep within the rainforests of Southeast Asia is one of the most unusual plants to have been found anywhere in the world. The Rafflesia Arnoldii is famous for producing the largest single flower found ...