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Scientist Discovers New Stinky Flower Species
A new plant species from Madagascar is similar to its famed Corpse Flower relative – it smells awful and is phallic–shaped – but it’s much smaller.
When it comes to the plant world, one person’s stinky, misshapen flower is another one’s charismatic bliss. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports on a botanist who went to Madagascar and returned with a new species of the smelly corpse flower.