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A New Stinky Flower: Our Amorphophallus Is Smaller, but It Stinks Like Its Big Cousin
Information submitted by Bob Kipfer
Published Science Daily
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2012) — 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.
The new species, collected on two small islands off Madagascar, brings to about 170 the number of species in the genus Amorphophallus……
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Comment sent by email February 8, 2012
Awesome! “They are just so rude — their appearance and smell,” Bohs says. “Everybody I’ve talked to says they almost started puking when they smelled it. It’s horrid.”
When I was in grad school I coauthored a couple of papers on another arum- Philodendron selloum. They get hot and make your eyes water too- but the smell is not unpleasant.
Chris Barnhart
Professor of Biology
Missouri State University