Titan arum's pebble-sized red, oval fruits appear nine months after fertilisation, and each contain two seeds. In the wild they are eaten and spread by birds such as rhinoceros hornbills.

He sent some of the plant’s seeds and tubers back to Europe, and titan arum has been spreading to botanic gardens, arboreta and research institutions around the world ever since. Wild ...

The Titan Arum, or corpse flower, has become a rockstar in the plant world for its unpredictable displays, and more notoriously, its putrid stench of rotting flesh. What is it? The very large ...

The seeds from the fruit are expected to germinate this month if all goes well. The National Museum of Nature and Science's Tsukuba Botanical Garden managed to coax the "titan arum" plant ...

If you smell a rotting corpse, it could be one of two things: an actual rotting corpse, or—if you’re lucky—just a giant smelly flower called titan arum. Now, scientists have identified the ...

The so-called "corpse flower", known more formally as the titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum, typically blooms for only a couple of days and can take years—sometimes over a decade—to bloom ...

He sent some of the plant’s seeds and tubers back to Europe, and titan arum has been spreading to botanic gardens, arboreta and research institutions around the world ever since. Wild ...