Amorphophallus titanum bears the world's largest flower. Although Amorphophallus may not ring a bell, you may recall the clamor when the largest Amorphophallus species — A. titanum — flowered in ...

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 ...

In a Netherlands garden blooms a rare plant with a tall, phallic shape. It’s known as the “penis plant,” and this is only the third time the species has flowered in Europe since 1997, according to the ...

Warm summertime love can cool so quickly, or so the poets tell us, and sunny days have a way of fading away as August ends. And if you are a rare and regal specimen, the sort of hard-to-find flower ...

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 ...

The strange-looking inflorescence of the rare Amorphophallus titanum only appears once the plant has matured at 7 to 10 years ...

If you’ve ever wanted to see – and smell – one of the weirdest wonders in the natural world, now’s your chance. The famous Corpse Flower, officially known as Amorphophallus titanum, is blooming right ...

Now that’s an erection! A 6-and-a-half-foot-tall “penis plant” has bloomed in Europe for the first time in almost 25 years. The imposing plant — an aptly named amorphophallus decus-silvae — flowered ...

A very rare and very stinky plant was drawing long lines in Brooklyn this weekend as locals sought to get a whiff of the flower dubbed "Smelliot” by staff at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. “It smells ...

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 ...

Chromosome numbers and karyotypes of 17 species of Amorphophallus are given and the DNA amount is recorded of 13 of them. The data are used to suggest an evolutionary scheme for the species studied.

Although Amorphophallus may not ring a bell, you may recall the clamor when the largest Amorphophallus species — A. titanum — flowered in botanic gardens from Florida to Scotland. That’s because the ...