While not a true carnivorous plant, its rotten smell attracts insects, which sometimes become trapped in its massive flower, aiding in pollination rather than digestion. Native to North America, the ...
It's sometimes called a lily, but it's an arum, a genus not closely related to true lilies ... The answer is reproduction - the titan arum needs pollinators such as flies, and flies like dead things.
Amid virus inoculation by hemipteran insects, vector infestation induces salicylic acid (SA)-mediated plant antiviral defense. Here it is found that the vector-borne plant virus circumvents this ...