Earlier this month, a titan arum (a.k.a. “corpse flower,” a.k.a. amorphophallus titanum, a.k.a. “large, misshapen penis”) bloomed for the first time in over half a decade at the U.S. Botanical Garden in Washington D.C. In this quick video from BytesizeScience, the USBG’s public science educator Todd Brethauer explains the science behind the plant’s legendary stank.
https://gizmodo.com/the-massive-corpse-flower-has-finally-bloomed-it-sme-865326457
