Scientists are scrutinizing various types of stinking flowers that measure several feet across to better classify and preserve them.

Attenborough, D. 1995. The Private Life of Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Beaman, J.H., and G.J. Martin. 1999. The systematics, evolution, and ethnobotany of the flora of Mount Kinabalu (Borneo): Biodiversity research and conservation in action. International Botanical Congress. August. St. Louis.

Emboden, W.A. 1974. Bizarre Plants. London: Cassell & Collier Macmillan Publishers.

Milius, S. 1999. Botanists uproot their old tree of life. Science News 156(Aug. 7):85.

Nickrent, D.L., and M.C. Press. 1999. Current research on parasitic flowering plants. International Botanical Congress. August. St. Louis.

The Fairchild Tropical Garden’s Web site offers hour by hour pictures of the 1998 Amorphophallus bloom at http://www.ftg.org/blooms/moreamorph.html.

Links to sites featuring aroids (plants related to Amorphophallus) can be found at http://hoya.mobot.org/ias/link.html.

The 1999 bloom of Amorphophallus titanum at Huntington Botanical Gardens with botanical details and links to other Amorphophallus sites can be found at http://www.huntington.org/PageOne.htm.

The Parasitic Plant Connection page on the Rafflesia family with pictures of several species and relatives plus distribution and links to other Rafflesia sites can be found at http://www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants/Rafflesiaceae/index.html.

Additional information about Amorphophallus titanum can be found at http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/TitanArum.htm and http://www.ftg.org/blooms/amorphophallus.html.

John H. Beaman
Royal Botanica Gardens, Kew
Herbarium
Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB
United Kingdom

Josef Bogner
Munich Botanical Gardens
Menzinger Str. 65
80638 München
Germany

Thomas B. Croat
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299

Claude W. dePamphilis
Pennsylvania State University
Biology Department
0208 Mueller Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802

Peter G. Kevan
University of Guelph
Botany Department
3226 Edmund C. Bovey Laboratory Building
Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
Canada

Kathy Musial
Huntington Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108

Jamili Nais
Sabah Parks
Research and Education Division
Kinabalu Park, P.O. Box 10626
88806 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Malaysia

Daniel L. Nickrent
Southern Illinois University
Department of Plant Biology
Carbondale, IL 62901-6509

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 11, September 11, 1999, p. 172. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.