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. These ...

Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

A giant, rare and notoriously stinky flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over the weekend, drawing hundreds to smell something "putrid." The Amorphophallus gigas, known as the "corpse ...

While this is the first blooming for the rare “giga” variety of corpse flower, the Brooklyn garden in 2006 celebrated the blossoming of a similar, equally stinky, relative, the Amorphophallus ...

ATLANTA — A rare, smelly flower has bloomed for the first time in four years at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. There are four blooms of the African corpse flower blooming at the Fuqua Conservatory.

San Francisco's notorious corpse flower 'Chanel' is about to bloom at the Conservatory, bringing crowds eager to smell its ...

Corpse flowers give off the intense smell to attract pollinators in nature, which include carrion beetles and flies.

So they don't bloom very often, but they also don't bloom for very long, either. The United States Botanic Garden says they ...

Stink Floyd, the 12-year-old corpse flower at Reiman Gardens in Ames, has bloomed. And with that bloom comes the reason behind its nickname. As the flower — also known as Amorphophallus titanum ...

"This isn’t just a flower—it’s a 10-foot-tall botanical rock star when in full bloom: Rare. Rancid. Ridiculously cool," Reiman Gardens said in a Facebook post.

Stinky Corpse Flowers Face a Recordkeeping Problem at Botanic Gardens, and It’s Leading to Inbreeding, Study Finds Inconsistent data may be hurting conservation efforts for these endangered ...

A rare, smelly flower has bloomed for the first time in four years at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. There are four blooms of the African corpse flower blooming at the Fuqua Conservatory. They say ...