New stinky flower: Our amorphophallus is smaller, but it stinks like its big cousin
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
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-fourth as tall but just as stinky.