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What is a stink plant and why does it stink?
he titan arum (or stink plant) is an world, the one at Kew Gardens lay their eggs, the insects arrive, crawl
odd plant however you look at it. weighing in at an astonishing 91kg. over the flower and while they go away
Known as the 'Corpse Flower' in Once the flowers around it are ready hungry, they also ensure pollination
Indonesia, it's a colossal organism, the for pollination, the spadix begins to occurs. To make certain of this, the
central column or 'spadix' growing up generate the disgusting smell to spadix's tip heats to near human body
to three metres tall. The plant's corm attract sweat bees, beetles and other temperature while the red colouration
- the underground root system where carcass-eating insects. Thinking and texture of the lower section
it stores its food - is the largest in the they've found a meal, or somewhere to completes the illusion.
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