Appropriately dubbed the “corpse flower,” the titan arum is actually a cluster of tiny flowers within a huge central stalk called the spadix, which can grow up to 12 feet (3.7 meters ...

All wildflowers are gifts from God. Some are given to remind us of the consequences of disobedience to God. Just as the ...

Native to Sumatra in Indonesia, the noxious species “comprises a fleshy central spike called a spadix that holds two rings of male and female flowers, wrapped by the frilly spathe, a modified ...

Its scientific name means giant, misshapen phallus and it is not hard to see why. A giant column called a spadix rises 7 feet into the air from the center of a pleated funnel. When the plant ...

And when it does, it’s spectacular. Its huge flowering structure (the spadix) can be up to three metres in height and one to two metres across, which is why it has the wonderfully apt Latin name ...

A day later, Wahlert began cutting down the plant in stages so the spadix, the surrounding leafy spathe and other parts could be pressed, mounted and submitted to the National Museum of Natural ...

The plant consists of a thick central spike, known as a spadix, with a base that’s encircled by two rings of male and female flowers. A large, frilly leaf called a spathe envelops these flowers ...

This white, phallus-like structure, called the spadix, extended upward from a collar of ribbed, purple foliage, known as a spathe. It's the spadix that generates the penis plant's distinct odor ...

The inner flower spike, or spadix, looks like a yellow obelisk as it emerges from a pleated purple collar called the spathe. An inflorescence, or cluster, of flowers lies in a protected zone ...

These names are accurate descriptions. Some corpse flowers have been known to grow three meters tall before revealing a ...

The individual greenish-yellow-to-dull-purple flowers are tiny and embedded on the surface of a globe (the spadix) and almost entirely surrounded by a fleshy, purple hood-like spathe. The spathe ...

Like its cousin, the skunk cabbage, Jack-in-the-pulpit’s inflorescence consists of two parts: a spadix that bears numerous small flowers and a modified leaf called a spathe that surrounds and ...