While many plants use sweet smells and nectar to attract insects and other animal pollinators, some employ a different tactic: They exude the putrid odors of feces and rotting animal carcasses.

"The Pinxterbloom Azalea is native to much of the eastern United States and has large groups of fragrant flowers that smell ...

The Amorphophallus titanium is just one of several types of carrion flowers that smell like rotting meat to attract pollinators. Here are three others. The stinking root parasite (Hydnora africana ...

“Tropical plants have a root that grows along the ground ... nauseous and have to leave,” she said. “People think it smells like cheese, rotten meat, fish, rotten onions, even some people ...

From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...

Many plants make their flowers attractive to bees, which like sweeter smells. However, a large variety of insects can pollinate flowers. This arum has opted instead to attract flesh flies and carrion ...