Rafflesia is the name of a large group of plants all of which smell of rotting flesh to attract flies and carrion beetles. A bright red flower reeking of decomposing flesh has bloomed in Indonesia ...

it smells really bad. However, it doesn't make you want to throw up and it doesn't dissuade people from going to see it." Rafflesia is endangered in part because local people, who need to plant ...

Crowds lined up at the California Academy of Sciences, a research institution and museum in San Francisco, last month to see – and smell – the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that ...

Some arums, stapelia and the largest flower in the world - the rafflesia - smell like rotting meat! The reason for this horrible whiff is to attract flies, which carry their pollen to other flowers.

Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), Borneo. This plant has no stem or leaves ... To do this, the seeds trick dung beetles. The beetles smell out, roll and then bury antelope dung, before laying ...

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...