The corpse flower only blooms when it has sufficient energy to do so, according to United States Botanic Garden. The plant's energy is stored in the corm – a swollen stem base typically weighing ...

Phil – one of Cal State Long Beach’s rare corpse flowers – is getting ready to bloom, even as early as Saturday, said the university’s botanical curator.

Across the globe, certain flowers exhibit the rare phenomenon of blooming only once in their lifetime or infrequently. These ...

Such a big stink over a big flower. The Amorphophallus Titanum, also known as the corpse flower, is nearly ready to bloom at the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Arizona. To get to the point of ...

Corpse flower blooms at MoBot; garden open until 12:30 a.m. for a good whiff. 0 Comments ... They smell like putrescent flesh, and the color of the flower kind of looks like it, too.

Besides its impressive size and striking color, the scent of the corpse flower is what draws so many people to see it in person, but it’s not exactly a pleasant fragrance.

After the corpse flower at the New York Botanical Garden bloomed for the first time in 1937 and 1939, New Yorkers had to wait 80 years to smell its stench once again.

The color and odor imitate that of a rotting corpse to attract pollinators. Garden officials said Octavia started to bloom early Thursday morning. The blooming period only lasts about 24 hours and ...

It's sweaty, stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanic Gardens, where the season's first rare corpse flower bloom is expected by July 23.

CSU’s corpse flower, Cosmo, brought to the school in 2016 as a sapling from a researcher’s conference at Cornell, is about to bloom.

It's a long process in the making, as it can take a corpse flower 5 to 10 years to go from seed to its first bloom. ... “Size, shape, color and smell are all about attracting a pollinator.