The Echo

Southend's earliest tattoo artist who opened up in 1900

In December of 1900 a man named Sidney Wright, a tattoo master artist from America, opened up a shop in Southend High Street, opposite Burtons ...

People are freaking out over these fake flowers in Rockefeller Center Plaza

You’d think they were lined up for a shot at snaring “Saturday Night Live” tickets with Taylor Swift as host. OK, maybe not Taylor Swift. Her fiancé? The line stretching from Rockefeller Center Plaza ...

Titan arum: One of the world’s rarest flowers blooming at University of Warsaw; what makes the ‘corpse flower’ unique

The University of Warsaw Botanical Garden is currently hosting a rare event: the blooming of a titan arum, also known as the "corpse flower." This bloom, reaching over 180cm, began on August 5th and ...

How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell: It has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work

Corpse plants definitely earn their nickname. Their pungent odors attract not only the carrion insects—beetles and flies ...