Still, each time the rare flower blooms at Milwaukee's Mitchell Park Horticulture Conservatory domes, people flock to get a whiff. If you long to experience this stinky plant up close and personal ...

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

It was difficult to say why the regal, mysterious and stinky flower had attracted such a following -– but perhaps the answer lay in the “reverence” viewers felt in the presence of “such an ...

The Titan Arum is a large, beautiful, and rare flower. It blooms only once every 10 years and is only in bloom for two to ...

It's hard to believe 50 years ago today, this land once hosted the Palace on the Prairie, the Richfield Coliseum. Troopers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol said a one-vehicle accident in Geauga ...

They flower first, producing enough heat to melt any surrounding snow and ice. As the flowers fade, foul-smelling leaves emerge. By late spring and summer, large colonies of skunk cabbage are ...

(Jenni Webster) Inside the flower’s spathe — a conical sheath ... Its Latin name, foetidus, means putrid or stink. That smell attracts flies and gnats known to feed on carrion, as well as ...

A flower that only blooms for 48 hours and smells of “old socks” is being shown in public for the first time in the UK. The Gabon false hydrosme at Kew Gardens, which is listed as an endangered plant, ...

"It smells like old socks [or] of something decaying ... Royal Botanical Gardens have been keenly waiting for the first flowers to emerge for months after initially pollinating the plant three ...