San Francisco's Corpse Flower "Chanel" is in bloom at the Conservatory of Flowers, emitting its notorious, foul smell for ...

People have described the smell of a corpse flower bloom as rotting flesh. A KQED reporter found that description to be spot ...

Dozens of people turned out to witness the rare unfurling of a tropical plant that emits a powerful stench at a botanical ...

If you’ve ever wanted to smell a flower that’s scent has been compared to rotting flesh, this could be your chance. That’s ...

Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans flock to see them—and, perhaps more importantly, to smell them.

When the corpse flower last bloomed at Cal Poly in 2020, around 3,000 people came to see it. The university has had two other blooms since then, but they were not open for public viewing. More in U.S.

The researchers also identify a new component of the corpse flower's odor, an organic chemical called putrescine. ... Also active at the time were genes involved in sulfur transport and metabolism.

A heatmap of the corpse flower (right) compared to a visible light image (left). The titan arum heats up about 20 degrees Fahrenheit over the ambient temperature when the flower blooms.

The corpse flower lives up to its nickname. Native to Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia, the giant tropical plant can live for decades and grow over 12 feet tall, but its most famous for the ...

Appropriately dubbed the “corpse flower,” the titan arum is actually a cluster of tiny flowers within a huge central stalk called the spadix, which can grow up to 12 feet (3.7 meters ...