New Philippine corpse flower is phallic-shaped, funky smelling — and nearly extinct

Mongabay
Sep 7, 2021, 7:38 am418 pts
Forester Leonardo Udasco Jr. and his team were deep in the forests of the northern Philippines in 2019 when they first spotted a plant they’d never seen before: a small, phallic-shaped flower with a putrid odor of rotting flesh. Fast-forward two years, and that plant they found while conducting a biodiversity…

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