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The warmth of hot flowers attracts pollinators and helps broadcast the flowers’ (often foul) scent. Corpse flower stalks can reach 98°F, as warm as our bodies. The heat and foul odor both occur in pulses produced by the central stalk. How do these flowers get so hot? Amorphophallus and other heat- producing flowers have evolved mechanisms that disconnect
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