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/

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How the corpse flower evolved its bizarre traits

Evolutionary studies make sense of the world’s strangest plant

Scientific American
@sohkamyung Wonderful photos & diagrams in this article. Thanks for highlighting.