Across the globe, certain flowers exhibit the rare phenomenon of blooming only once in their lifetime or infrequently. These ...

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

A rare plant housed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, infamous for its putrefying stench, is on the verge of blooming. State of play: Affectionately nicknamed Chanel by staff, the Titan ...

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 ...

The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived event: its corpse flower is blooming — but only for ...

Native to the rainforests of western Sumatra in Indonesia, corpse flowers are infamous for their stench. To attract ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...