Georgette Douwma / Swiss cheese plant (Monstera deliciosa) in flower, close up of spadix.

Georgette Douwma / Cheese plant or Mexican bread plant. (Monstera deliciosa) close up of spadix.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Dragon Arum (Dracunculus vulgaris) which smells of rotting flesh / carrion to attract flies for pollination, Chania, Crete, April

Adrian Davies / Cross section of the spathe of a Wild arum / Lords and Ladies / Cuckoo pint (Arum maculatum), showing in succession (from below) female flowers, male flowers, and sterile flowers forming a ring of hai...

Daniel Heuclin / Black back desert hairy scorpion (Hadrurus spadix) Death valley national park, California, USA, May

Daniel Heuclin / Black back desert hairy scorpion (Hadrurus spadix) Death valley national park, California, USA, May

Matthias Breiter / Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus) plants showing prominent spadix, Alaska

Alex Hyde / Detail of enormous inflorescence of Arum (Amorphophallus sp) showing droplets of foul-smelling secretion on spadix that attract pollinating insects. Kirindy forest, West Madagascar

Alex Hyde / Detail of spadix from enormous inflorescence of Arum (Amorphophallus sp) showing droplets of foul-smelling secretion that attract pollinating insects. Kirindy forest, West Madagascar

MYN / Niall Benvie / Cuckoo pint / Wild arum / Lords and ladies (Arum maculatum) in flower meetyourneighbours.net project

Philippe Clement / Wild arum / Lords and ladies / Cuckoo pint (Arum maculatum) flower spathe and spadix, spring, Belgium

Konrad Wothe / Maraval Lily (Spathiphyllum cannifolium) with pollinating bees climbing on spadix, Trinidad, West Indies