A flowering plant native to the desert regions of Tanzania and South Africa, the carrion flower (or toad flower) earns its name from its absolutely repulsive smell. It releases a rotting-flesh odour ...

and less than 1,000 individual plants remain in the wild. The Amorphophallus titanium is just one of several types of carrion flowers that smell like rotting meat to attract pollinators.

While it’s also known as Amazon Water Lily, Royal Water Lily, and Amazon Water Platter, Giant Water Lily does this plant justice given its huge floating lily pads. As the largest member of the water ...

which grabs headlines as a corpse flower. The gigas can grow even taller than the titanium, and it gives off a similar carrion scent to attract fly pollinators, Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG ...