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Newly published research suggests that despite all the pampering corpse flower plants receive from their curators, ...
You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. In fact, ...
The titan arum is native to the rainforests ... the researchers revealed that the flower also emits a chemical called putrescine, released by rotting dead bodies. "Putrescine, derived from ...
If the thousands of visitors to Kew Gardens to see the magnificent Titan Arum in flower are ... and when in full flower it ...
The Titan Arum is a large, beautiful, and rare flower. It blooms only once every 10 years and is only in bloom for two to ...
It was then that it became clear why the Titan arum also goes by another name - the corpse flower. It exudes an odour described as a mixture of 'rotting corpse and excrement'. Greg Redwood ...
Inside the hot, humid greenhouse at Summit Sprouts, Sarah Dormer leaned in close to the blooming amorphophallus konjac, took ...
“Plant fans from all over Switzerland want to see the titan arum.” Those who waited for the weekend did not have to contend with the stink of carrion produced by the flower in the first few ...
the Titan Arum, now in full bloom at the National Botanic Garden in Belgium. Also known as the "corpse flower" because it smells like rotting flesh, the giant plant began blooming on Monday.
to the Titan's female flowers. The result was a remarkable 100% fruit set, with each orange berry containing one or two seeds. Berry doesn't take all the credit, though. Titan "isn't a terribly ...