Open your eyes and hold your nose - one of the world's most odiferous plants is going on display in Washington starting Thursday. The titan arum - which is more often known by the ominous "Corpse ...
One of the world’s biggest and smelliest flowers has finally blossomed at a zoo - treating visitors to the stench of rotting meat. The Titan Arum was planted at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in ...
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Something rare and magnificent is taking place at LA’s Huntington ...
With all due respect to the Cal State Fullerton soccer team, there likely isn’t a smellier Titan on campus than this one: the titan arum. This rare tropical flower in the biology greenhouses bloomed ...
This profile of Italian arum is another in a series on invasive plants from the City Green blog by Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services. Italian arum, also known as lords-and-ladies or orange ...
A flowering plant infamous for its eye-watering odour and rather cheeky scientific name which began showing signs of a rare bloom on Wednesday has now closed up. In a picture posted by the Cairns ...
The bloom of the titan arum grows to more than two metres tall. It certainly looks like a flower—albeit one which smells like a dead possum—but is it? Tim Entwisle, the director of Melbourne’s Royal ...
It might smell like a dead cane toad, but the blooming of what's affectionately known as the "corpse flower" is so momentous, people are prepared to fly several hours to witness it. The Amorphophallus ...
Plant native to Sumatra boasts huge fly-attracting flower that can be sustained for only a few days It looks like a giant erect penis, stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a ...
'It smells like a food bin that's overflowing': The weird biology of the giant smelly 'corpse plant'
It takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are still unravelling the baffling lifecycle of the titan arum. I'm in a row of people shuffling ...
For botanists, it doesn't get more exciting than this - after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom. For curious crowds who gathered, they perhaps realised that a ...
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