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

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 ...

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When in bloom, the interesting flowers last for more than a month. The flower actually is made up of a spadix, the central fleshy stem, and the spathe, the bract that makes up the flower structure.