Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman takes pictures of the flowering penis plant (Amorphophallus decus-silvae) in the tropical greenhouses of the Leiden Hortus ...

In a Netherlands garden blooms a rare plant with a tall, phallic shape. It’s known as the “penis plant,” and this is only the third time the species has flowered in Europe since 1997, according to the ...

The last time the rare flower was observed was 25 years ago. Visitors and botanists all over Europe are coming to witness the exotic – and rotten smelling – plant. A weird looking plant, known for ...

The withered plants can still be seen in Leiden botanical garden, which has a whole collection from the wider phallic family. A giant ‘penis plant’ has bloomed for the first time in the Netherlands.

Sometimes a cigar-shaped plant is just a cigar-shaped plant – except when it's the rare "penis plant," which may only bloom once in two decades or more. The uncommon flowering of the plant with the ...