Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest plants: a corpse flower called Amorphophallus gigas (pictured above), ...

“That was disgusting.” The rare Amorphophallus gigas — a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower — has bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...

“That was disgusting.” Amorphophallus gigas − Smelliot − is so rare only nine other botanic gardens are listed as having one, according to Botanic Gardens Conservation Internationa ...

T he Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Amorphophallus gigas, a close relative of the famed corpse flower and apparently plenty stinksome in its own right, has bloomed for the first time since it was ...

“That was disgusting.” The rare Amorphophallus gigas — a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower — has bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...

Amorphophallus gigas translates to “giant shapeless phallus,” a fact that didn't get enough attention in the garden’s signage, in my opinion. At the base beneath the spathe were the actual, tiny ...

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