Titan arum's Mysterious Spadix Odor
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•Plantwatch: the smelly deception of titan arum’s phallic spadix
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The titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, grows in the forests of Sumatra in Indonesia .
It has a phallus-shaped spike called a spadix that warms up to 36C at night and gives off the stench of a rotting corpse.
This wonder is actually a ruse to attract carrion flies and beetles to pollinate the small flowers.
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