Corpse Flowers

Description:

Let’s face it—when you think of charismatic megaflora, chances are you have in mind something majestic, like a towering Sequoia, or something ancient, like a Joshua tree. But a plant with a four-foot stalk that smells like a cross between rotting stinky cheese and animal feces? This week’s podcast takes us to a sacred island off the coast of Madagascar, where an intrepid botanist braved fever and worse to bring a specimen of this unlikely botanical superstar back alive. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports.

 

Image Credit: Amorphophallus Sp., Greg Wahlert

 

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Duration: 5:29
Published: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:00:44 +0000