The spectacle brings life to the institution, attracting curious patrons by the hundreds — like pollinators in the rainforest ... case of the “awkward” corpse flower, he needed to do ...

It was the first bloom for the corpse flower named Mirage, which was donated to the California Academy of Sciences in 2017. It’s been housed in the museum’s rainforest exhibit since 2020.

An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator magnet and a symbol of the tropics. A vibrant plant with strikingly colourful bracts, it thrives in rainforest ...

Right now, people are lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens to see and smell the giant corpse flower ... even more like a dead animal in a tropical rainforest. It’s a trick, and it’s ...