A very peculiar plant. The actual flowers are tiny little things at the base. And when it isn't blooming, it produces a single leaf that looks like a tree trunk with leaflets.
"I mostly study members of an entirely different group of plants, the ferns. But I find myself drawn to the corpse flower because its mix of features suggests that it has an especially interesting evolutionary history."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-corpse-flower-evolved-its-bizarre-traits/
