1.   Five years ago, Avent sold two voodoo lilies.

2.   It is also called voodoo lily, stink lily and snake palm and leopard palm.

3.   Its less-awesome cousin, the Southeast Asian voodoo lily, has fascinated botanists for two centuries.

4.   Less than an ounce of the heat-producing tissue of a voodoo lily yields the same number of mitochondria as more than two pounds of corn seedlings.

5.   Scientists suspect that the genes that allow the voodoo lily to heat itself might someday be harnessed to breed frost-resistant crops.

6.   Some are scientific renditions, showing, for example, life phases of the voodoo lily.

7.   The voodoo lily uses the energy-producing organelles in its cells, known as mitochondria, to produce heat.

8.   The voodoo lily is related to the equally putrid giant Amorphophallus titanum, another rare bloomer known in its native Indonesia as bunga bangui or corpse flower.