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How does the corpse flower’s scent change over time?


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The Titan arum produces a smell like rotting flesh. Now botanists have analysed the chemicals and found that the smell changes over the two days that the plant flowers.

Read the blog post at https://botany.one/2023/01/how-does-the-corpse-flowers-scent-change-over-time/

Read the original research at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-27108-8

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