At different times of the day, different flowers open up for light and pollination.

When the bloom is over and the flower begins to deflate, staff from San Jose State’s biology department will aim to do something that’s only been achieved once before: dry and preserve the corpse ...

Buchanan also has written several novels and nonfiction books, including the best-selling “The Corpse Had a Familiar ... Miami Herald in the late 1980s before she embarked full time as a book ...

People gather around a corpse flower that begins to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 23, 2025, before another has opened in the Australian capital Canberra in the ...

The flower has no observable root or stem. Rather, it blooms directly from its host plant. And what a bloom it ... But before you go in search of this giant, you should know that it is sometimes ...

Corpse flower numbers are decreasing worldwide. Discover why conservation efforts struggle to maintain a healthy population.

Commonly called the "corpse flower," Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, ...

Because male and female corpse flowers bloom at different times, the flowers in these living collections rely on humans to keep their lineages alive. Their caretakers, however, face several ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized. Without ...

Newly published research suggests that despite all the pampering corpse flower plants receive from their curators, ...