Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues. She holds a master's in Southern Studies from ...
While in a recent study researchers identified the enzyme that plays a key role in producing the sweet fragrance found in roses, titan arum – or Amorphophallus titanum to give it its Latin name – is ...
Hold your noses: One of the world's stinkiest flowers, which smells like deceased, rotting flesh, is about to bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Even though this might sound like the stuff of ...
The famed “corpse flower” plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A botanist has discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is ...
One of the biggest and smelliest plants in the world is about to bloom in a greenhouse in Binghamton, New York. The Amorphophallus titanum's common name, corpse flower, tells you what to expect in the ...
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 7, 2012 – The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a ...