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The Corpse Flower: One of Nature’s Monsters

Posted on 28th June 2018 by Sam George

This magnificent Corpse Flower is in bloom at New York Botanical Gardens. AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM smells of rotting flesh and resembles an enormous phallus. Proof that truth really is stranger than fiction. I see it as a symbol of my research appearing as … Continue reading →

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Monstrous Blooms: The Amazing Corpse Lily

Posted on 31st July 2016 by Sam George

It is not often that the two strands of my research, botany and the undead, come together and I get very, very excited when they do (it is even less frequent that botany makes front page news).  Enter the Corpse … Continue reading →

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