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 ...

Come for the flower, flee from the stench: when a titan arum blooms, crowds come to marvel – and retch. Pictured: a child at the blooming of the titan arum in Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens in 2023.

Hundreds line up outside gas station: People want a whiff of a rare, smelly 'corpse flower' Misshapen, mighty and shortlived. Amorphophallus is from the Ancient Greek word amorphos, meaning ...

You don't often find crowds flocking to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, yet that's just what happens when a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. But this iconic endangered plant is ...

A corpse flower blooming in Cairns, Australia, in January 2018. ... The plant can live over 30 to 40 years – meaning it only blooms a handful of times in its entire lifetime.

It's sweaty, stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanic Gardens, where the season's first rare corpse flower bloom is expected by July 23.

The Missouri Botanical Garden announced that one of its titan arums, or "corpse flowers," is likely to bloom sometime between May 29 and June 5. This particular plant, named Lucy, is 7 years old ...

A rare flower is blooming for a limited time at Sacramento State— bringing with it a putrid smell.The corpse flower, native to Sumatra, an island in Indonesia, is in full bloom at the university ...

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, and it’s ...

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 ...