Our Amorphophallus Is Smaller, but It Stinks Like Its Big Cousin
Monday, February 6, 2012 - 23:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The famed "corpse flower" plant - known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape - has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky.