The Phytophactor

A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.

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Friday Fabulous Flowers - Olfactory edition

TPP walked into the glasshouse and immediately knew that the taro ( Coleocasia esculenta ) was in bloom. Generally most people don't not...

A damned big Jack-in-the-pulpit

If you've never seen, or smelled, an Amorphophallus in flower , it's something to see (see if you can figure out the name). Like a...

Largest flower?

Here's another news article about the blooming of the "world's largest flower ", and every time this happens, they make th...

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