You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden.

Corpse flower numbers are decreasing worldwide. Discover why conservation efforts struggle to maintain a healthy population.

Incomplete data results in reduced genetic diversity and contributes to population decline. Commonly known as the “corpse ...

Corpse flowers can live at least a decade or more in captivity, but they usually take five to 10 years to bloom, meaning a plant may only bloom a few times in its life. And when it does ...

Hundreds line up outside gas station: People want a whiff of a rare, smelly 'corpse flower' Amorphophallus is from the Ancient Greek word amorphos, meaning "misshapen." Phallus translates to penis ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized. Without ...

The corpse flower is native to the dense rainforests ... The titan arum’s female flowers are receptive for a very short time, meaning the window of opportunity for successful reproduction ...

Commonly called the “corpse flower,” Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, climate change and encroachment from invasive species. Now ...