Painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s calla-lily artworks are some of her most distinctive pieces. Depicting the showy plant in all its glory, the artist managed, between the 1920s and 1930s, to create so many ...
Researchers have discovered and scientifically described new species of this indigenous group of plants that are related to pig lilies Stylochaeton glaucophyllum (blue bushveld arum) and Stylochaeton ...
A flowering plant infamous for its eye-watering odour and rather cheeky scientific name which began showing signs of a rare bloom on Wednesday has now closed up. In a picture posted by the Cairns ...
THE GARDEN AT MADUMA, the house where I grew up in Zimbabwe, had luxuriant flower beds filled with masses of arum lilies that bloomed extravagantly each summer. These flowers, native to southern ...
The University of Warsaw Botanical Garden is currently hosting a rare event: the blooming of a titan arum, also known as the "corpse flower." This bloom, reaching over 180cm, began on August 5th and ...
Last November, San Diegans got the stench of the titan arum — or corpse flower. This week, the corpse flower’s cousin, the voodoo lily, is raising a stink at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas.
Plants of American origin are often known by a variety of names, especially if the plant is distinctive or dramatic for some reason. So the very beautiful and elegant flower, the spring-flowering ...