Plants are vastly intelligent in ways many ... titan arum has evolved to mimic rotting meat to the eyes of insect pollinators by having flesh-colored floral parts,” Raman and his coauthors ...

Plants are anchored in one spot, but they are cunning. They have mastered the art of enticing more mobile organisms to do ...

Some plants stink of rotting meat or dung, which helps them attract flies for pollination. How plants make the carrion stench, which is usually produced by bacteria feasting on decaying corpses ...

But despite the smell bringing all the bugs to the yard, it's not all rotting meat for the beloved corpse flower. While the endangered plant is increasingly threatened by habitat destruction and ...

Stop and smell … the "rotting meat." A stinky plant is blooming at Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum, a botanical research institution in Boston, Massachusetts. The titan arum ...

Thousands have queued to see the "corpse flower" bloom for the first time in two years The titan arum plant is famed for producing the stench of rotten meat and is ominously called the “corpse ...

smell like rotting meat. As a subset of flowering plants figured out long ago, many flies and some beetles are drawn to the putrid and foul over the pretty and floral. Exploited correctly ...

A plant that emulates the smell of rotten meat and flowers every 7 to 10 years bloomed for the first time at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston this week. The titan arum ...

but these bugs are helping to pollinate the plant. Not everything has to be roses. “In addition to chemical mimicry, titan arum has evolved to mimic rotting meat to the eyes of insect ...

The titan arum plant is famed for producing the stench of rotten meat and is ominously called the “corpse flower” in its native Sumatra. You might think this endangered plant is doing ...