The so-called "corpse flower", known more formally as the titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum, typically blooms for only a couple of days and can take years—sometimes over a decade—to bloom ...

The powerful scent of rotting flesh is set to waft through the air at a Melbourne garden centre to the delight of hundreds of plant enthusiasts.

Titan arum, known as the corpse flower, in bloom at San Jose State University ... and it becomes clear that it’s a flower bud and not a leaf. The pointy spadix, a tall spike of tiny flowers ...

While the Titan was in heat, herbarium director and systematist Paul Berry applied pollen donated by Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Fla., to the Titan's female flowers ... of local houseflies ...