To see the corpse flower is to witness to the powerful majesty – and daft absurdity – of nature. It’s about to happen in ...

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 ...

With a long column called a spadix, the corpse flower can grow up to 8 feet tall and “blooms over a 24-to-48-hour period accompanied by the strong odor of rotting meat,” the arboretum wrote on ...

It’s November already, and it’s time to prepare for the holidays. The University of Illinois Extension’s website has ...

Their distinctive white flower, or spathe, surrounds a thick yellow spadix which hosts the plant’s pollen. However, since this pollen is stickier and heavier than other plant species’, it is ...

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 ...