Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

A rare corpse flower will bloom at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park for the first time in two ...

Aroids are tropical plants from the Araceae family, including popular houseplants like Monstera and Philodendron. Learn how to care for them.

How and why plants evolved to stink so badly has been something of a mystery, but recent research has revealed some of their secrets and suggests why such plants aren’t just anomalies but ...

As of Tuesday morning, the spadix of the corpse flower is rising, which means "Stink Floyd" is gearing up for its grand performance — a "one-night-only stink show." Currently, the garden ...

The spadix is exceedingly variable in form; in the case of Amorphophallus rex it bears a peculiar appendage and a singular spathe. The various phylogenetic relationships of the various genera are ...

Some corpse flowers have been known to grow 3 meters (about 10 feet) tall before revealing a phallic spadix (or spike), while the odor, released by the spadix to attract insects, is often likened ...

Popping up on my FYP, all three meters of her, was Putricia the Corpse Flower, the Botanic Gardens of Sydney’s Araceae It girl.

Appropriately dubbed the “corpse flower,” the titan arum is actually a cluster of tiny flowers within a huge central stalk called the spadix, which can grow up to 12 feet (3.7 meters ...

And when it does, it’s spectacular. Its huge flowering structure (the spadix) can be up to three metres in height and one to 2m across, which is why it has the wonderfully apt Latin name of ...