It stands metres high, takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are ...

The titan arum, otherwise known as the corpse flower, is the world’s largest unbranched inflorescence, according to United ...

Each inflorescence (group of flowers) has a spathe (the "pulpit") and a flower-studded spadix (the "Jack"). The plant continues on like this, its reproductive capabilities uniquely waxing and waning ...

Most palms are tapped with an incision below the spadix, the fleshy inflorescence at the top of the male palm, but some, like date palms, are cut lower down the trunk. James McHugh, in An Unholy ...

Its palm-like leaves are used to make Panama hats. The stamens crumble overnight, revealing a bar-shaped cluster of flowers called spadix. When the somen look-alike plant garnered attention on ...

Inflorescences takes place in a hypothetical future, where plants, mushrooms and unknown critters will have mutated to live in symbiosis with abandoned objects. Questioning the definition of the ...

Amorphophallus titanum has the largest unbranched inflorescence (flower structure ... Inside the plant, the real flowers at the base of the spadix will be pollinated by hand on Monday night ...

Inflorescences takes place in a hypothetical future, where plants, mushrooms and unknown critters will have mutated to live in symbiosis with abandoned objects. Questioning the definition of the ...