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Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans flock to see them—and, perhaps more importantly, to smell them. These large, ...
BLACKSBURG, Va. – Stinky Phil, Virginia Tech’s resident corpse plant, bloomed for the first time in years! Native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the titan arum plant only blooms once every five ...
ROCKFORD (WREX) — The Rockford Park District says the watching and waiting is over as “Grimace” has started to bloom. The smelly and fascinating titan arum plant at Rockford Park District’s Nicholas ...
Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping at ...