www.wednesdaysattic.com Exciting News! A new cousin of the Corpse Flower has been discovered! Meet the Amorphophallus perrieri Here is an article I found all about it! Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic News Published February 8, 2012 A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And a new species of Amorphophallus—the genus that includes the "corpse flower"—still smells like rotting meat and feces. Discovered on an island off the coast of Madagascar, the newfound plant grows up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) high and blooms once a year with a "really foul" stench, according to discoverer Greg Wahlert, a postdoctoral researcher in botany at the University of Utah. Lynn Bohs, a biology professor in the same lab as Wahlert, described the smell in a statement as a combination of "rotting roadkill" and a "Porta Potty." The new flower adds to the roughly 170 species in the Amorphophall
