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World's Biggest, Smelliest Flower Puts on Sex Show

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cjchaps

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Story here

Favorite Quote: "The huge phallic flower has now unfurled to reveal its blood-red interior...and the plant has begun to heat up, giving off a pungent aroma described as a mixture of rotting flesh and excrement."

That flower is fricken HUGE! :Q
 
One of those bloomed here in Madison last year. You wouldn't believe the lines of people to see the giant stinkweed.
 
<<The 165-pound titan arum, the rotten-smelling giant of the plant kingdom, unfurled its single stinky flower after beginning a dramatic growth spurt last week," a Kew spokeswoman said. >>

You would think that a scientist at such a prestigious place would at least get the most basic fact straight. It is not a single flower, but a composite of hundreds of small flowers.

Other plants are like that too.

Last time I checked the plant was pollinated by flies not bees.
 


<< Last week the yellow shoot began to swell dramatically. It has now reached a height of almost three meters >>





"Is that a stamen in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
 
Those are neat but, yeah, they are a composite flower, like all aroids. I like Rafflesias better, they have a single three foot diameter bloom, and best of all they are saprophitic! I have a thing for plants with no chlorophyl
 
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