Plant enthusiasts get yourselves to Kew Gardens. The titan arum plant, sometimes referred to as the corpse flower, is in bloom. The plant has evolved to attract pollinators that enjoy feeding on and ...
Sometime in the next week or so the UC Santa Barbara greenhouse will start smelling like a rotting corpse. But the campus police needn't worry; it's only the huge perennial herb Amorphophallus titanum ...
Roses are red, violets are blue ... and then there's Titan arum. Liver-colored, reeking of rancid animal flesh and obscenely phallic, Titan arum - affectionately called the corpse flower - is hardly ...