Jack (meant to be a preacher) is the spadix and the pulpit is the surrounding spathe. You won’t see butterflies or bees hovering around your Jack-in-the-pulpits.

The tropical-looking spathe is not only confusing (“Is that a plastic plant?”), it’s also illogical. We’re at the northwestern edge of the eastern skunk cabbage range, and it grows only in ...

Then, the spathe unfurls over roughly 24 to 36 hours, giving curious onlookers just a small window to see (and smell) its maroon-colored insides for themselves. 7.

The leaves begin to grow once the spathe has wilted, unfolding in a spiraling pattern and forming a large, funnel-shaped rosette of dark-green leaves. The leaves grow up to 36 inches long and 12 ...

Zoo staffers and visitors have been waiting for days to see the flower and smell the stench that comes when Frederick the ...

As the spathe unfurls to reveal the spadix within, the spadix heats up by as much as 20 degrees F above the ambient temperature of the plant's environment and begins to release a cocktail of ...

Spathe color was associated with vacuolar pH with the whites and greens having the highest pH followed by corals, pinks, reds, and oranges. In general, ...

"Once the spathe opens, A. gigas will only bloom for a few days before collapsing, so come check it out soon!" the website proclaims. If you want to see and smell it though, ...