From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...

We love unusual flower finds, and Flowering Maple definitely qualifies! Often called “Chinese Lanterns”, these shrub-like plants feature incredible drop-shaped flowers that make great ...

By feeding on its host, rafflesia is able to produce the world's biggest flower, a metre across ... pushing competing plants out of the way, before it unfurls into a giant leaf, up to 2.5 metres ...

However, they couldn’t match the fossils’ strange ... plants, once the flower is fertilised, the stamens detach along with the petals and the rest of the flower parts. “And this thing seems ...

An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a greenhouse in Sydney.