Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...
Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed ... If it is a non-flowering year, one leaf about the size of a small tree will shoot from the corm.
When a line of people are waiting around in Brooklyn, most people would assume they’re waiting for a concert. Instead, crowds ...
A rare flower that smells like decaying flesh was attracting visitors in the Australian capital Canberra for the third ...
Nearly 1000 people rushed to the Australian National Botanic Gardens over the weekend to see - and, more importantly, ...
Amorphophallus titanum was having its own day in the sun last week, when the rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia, for the first time in ...
A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...
Its species name, Amorphophallus titanum, meanwhile, means "titanic misshaped penis" in Ancient Greek. These names are accurate descriptions. Some corpse flowers have been known to grow three meters ...
The corpse flower at the Australian National Botanic Gardens is at least 15 years old but had never flowered before now.
“That was disgusting.” The rare Amorphophallus gigas – a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower – has bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...
It's been 15 years since the foul-smelling flower showed its petals in Sydney, but the rare Amorphophallus titanum – also known as a corpse flower – is finally blooming.
Hand-pollination of the pungent corpse flower results in hundreds of seeds that will be sent across the world to help ...