These plants smell like rotten meat — Now we know how they do it From the aptly-named carrion flower to the stinking corpse lily, these plants thrive through disgusting odors ...

Everything about the carrion flower points to its pollinators. The red flowered form in the botanical garden resembles exposed flesh of a fresh kill.

But for the carrion flower, which has the world’s largest flowering head, ... We thought the plant was on fire,” says Wilhelm Barthlott from the University of Bonn in Germany.

The New York Botanical Garden bragged that their stinking Amorphophallus titanium is in full bloom. It's a rare occurrence every 3 to 10 years for this Sumatran rainforest Arum species.

Also known as the carrion flower, or corpse plant, the A. titanum gets its name from its stench, which is caused by chemicals it shares with rotting onions, smelly cheese, sweaty socks, rotten ...

From the aptly-named carrion flower to the stinking corpse lily, these plants thrive through disgusting odors. advertisement. Salon. These plants smell like rotten meat — Now we know how they do it.