Floral sex
The titan aram (a.k.a. Amorphophallus titanum) at Kew Gardens has bloomed for the first time in six years:
The huge phallic flower has now unfurled to reveal its blood-red interior . . . and the plant has begun to heat up, giving off a pungent aroma described as a mixture of rotting flesh and excrement.
More info available from Reuters and at the Kew Gardens site.