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The Missouri Botanical Garden announced one of its rare corpse flowers will soon bloom for the first time in its 7-year life.
Lucy the corpse flower is getting ready to bloom at the Missouri Botanical Garden, in all her stinky glory. Garden officials ...
After last year’s incredible Washington D.C. corpse flower showing—where two of these rare flowers bloomed almost at the same ...
With only a day’s notice, the public is invited to witness the rare Queen of the Night cactus bloom by moonlight.
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.
Cancel anytime. Kenzi Heisler, of Washington, takes a photo of the blooming corpse flower Octavia at the Missouri Botanical Garden on Sunday, July 30, 2023. ST. LOUIS — Hold your nose.
Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a ...
NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent. Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for ...
The Amorphophallus titanium, better known as the corpse flower, is a rare, 8-foot-tall flower that blooms for just a few days every few years. The U.S. Botanic Garden has several. One just bloomed ...
Last week, the US Botanic Garden was abuzz with the beginning of two corpse flower blooms. But there’s another one to see—and it’s made of Legos. Master builder Andrew Litterst finished the ...
It’s sweaty stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens. One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence. In the next 10 to 12 days ...
Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping ...