There are many undesirables in the plant world, but one of the most bizarre is the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanium).

The Titan Arum — most commonly referred to as the corpse plant — flowers unpredictably, often just once every 10 years, staff ...

It was supposed to begin its six-hour bloom Thursday at about 4 p.m., according to predication by Brian O’Brien, a Gustavus Adolphus College chemistry professor who acquired seeds for the St. Peter, ...

First thing’s first — the corpse flower typically only blooms ... produce fruits and then seeds.” Though the flower is expected to bloom sometime in the next 10 days, factors like heat ...

The flowers at Gustavus, like many corpse flowers across America, arrived as a batch of seeds from Indonesia in the 1990s as part of efforts to preserve the endangered species. The first Gustavus ...

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Looking for an extraordinary spectacle to take part in this weekend? Go see the elusive African Corpse Flower at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, a species known for its potent smell, which is having ...

By feeding on its host, rafflesia is able to produce the world's biggest flower, a metre across ... It urgently needs to get its seeds underground before it gets too hot. To do this, the seeds ...

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The endangered Sumatran Titan arum, a giant foul-smelling blossom also known as the corpse flower, went into a rare, short bloom at a botanical garden in Warsaw, drawing crowds who waited for ...

the violet flowers gain the benefits of genetic diversity via insect pollination as well as of being able to grow outside of insect pollinators' range via self-pollination. Note the seeds in the ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...