It's one of the world's largest flowers, it stinks of rotting meat or rancid cheese and looks very much like a giant penis. The Amorphophallus Titanum — literally "the giant strangely shaped penis" — ...

Among the beautiful horticulture that characterizes the New York Botanical Gardens’ new exhibit, Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx, the Amorphophallus titanum is a spectacle all ...

Doug Johnson is a Canadian writer, editor, and journalist. This story originally featured on Undark. The alien-like blooms and putrid stench of Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the corpse ...

Like birthstones, birth month flowers possess their own special meaning. As Jessica Hollander, botanical artist and owner of India & Purry, put it, nature provides us with a wealth of reflection and ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Sometime next year, you may notice a new, foul smell at the Norfolk Botanical Garden. It’s a new corpse flower, also known as the amorphophallus titanum, that a garden ...

JERUSALEM — Ever notice how rose petals curl at the edges with those elegant pointed tips? For centuries, artists have celebrated these distinctive shapes in paintings and poetry, but the science ...

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For hundreds of years, plant taxonomists have worked to understand how species are related. Until relatively recently, their only reliable source of information about these relationships was the ...

Once upon a time on Earth, there was a first flower. Nature provides plenty of cues to help us imagine what the planet looked like 250 million years ago. But we lack concrete evidence in order to ...