Members of the Arum family produce flowers that consist of a "spadix" composed of clusters of tiny flowers on an upright axis that is usually partially surrounded or hidden by a leafy bract called ...

The assembly's called an inflorescence rather than a flower because that spike is ... The 5-foot inflorescence marks a proper member of the Arum family: ... Sometimes you see only the spadix.

A rare corpse flower will bloom at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park for the first time in two ...

Said to be the largest flower (in sheer bulk) in the world, it is technically an inflorescence. Thousands of true flowers are hidden inside the base of the spadix, a fleshy central column that can ...

Stock image of a titan arum blooming in Zurich, Switzerland on May 24, 2023 (main) and heatmap showing that the plant's central towering spike heating up to about 20 degrees F over the ambient ...

It can produce temperatures on average 20 degrees warmer than the surrounding air, keeping the temperature constant and ideal for the flowers to mature. A member of the Arum family (Araceae ...

It can grow up to 3 metres (10 feet) tall and weigh up to 150kg, it also contains hundreds of flowers in the base of its spadix. Titan arum is an endangered plant in the wild due to deforestation ...

When our corm was weighed in mid-August it was 54 pounds. The flowering stalk of the Titan Arum is a spectacular sight; from a pleated skirt of scarlet rises a towering yellow spadix (the spike that ...

A heatmap of the corpse flower (right) compared to a visible light image (left). The titan arum heats up about 20 degrees Fahrenheit over the ambient temperature when the flower blooms.