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Plantwatch: the smelly deception of titan arum’s phallic spadix

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55% Informative

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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41

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34

Neutral language

10

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

54

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offensive

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Time-value

long-living

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