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Florence Parker Allen and her nephew Lyle Johnston, who takes care of her 16-acre farm at 5000 W. 1937 North in unincorporated Davis County, are seen Thursday. Allen is applying to a conservation board to be placed in an agricultural protection zone, which would protect her from nuisance complaints if the area around her farm is developed. (KENDAL RUSSELL/Standard-Examiner)

Rezone would shield two Davis farms from nuisance complaints

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 9:36pm

FARMINGTON — The owners of two certified Utah Century Farms in Davis County are applying to a conservation board to be placed in an agricultural protection zone.

It is the first time in six years such a request has been made in Davis County.

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University of Utah botanist Greg Wahlert, a postdoctoral researcher in biology, and the upper part of a new plant species he discovered, Amorphophallus perrieri. The plant is in the same family as philodendrons, taro root, skunk cabbage and anthurium, which is common in floral arrangements. Photo Credit: Lee Siegel, University of Utah

New plant discovered by UofU biologist smells like roadkill

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Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 1:19pm

SALT LAKE CITY - The famed "corpse flower" plant - known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape - has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky.

The new species, collected on two small islands off Madagascar, brings to about 170 the number of species in the genus Amorphophallus, which is Greek for "misshapen penis" because of the shape of the plants' flower-covered shaft, called the inflorescence or the spadix, says Greg Wahlert, a postdoctoral researcher in biology.

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