Stinky Plants From Around the World While there are many plants and flowers that smell bad that are usually only found in the wild or in the collections of botanical gardens, there are also plenty ...

A rare corpse flower, known for its massive size and foul stench, will bloom for just 24 to 48 hours. Officials for the ...

Instead of bright, attractive flowers that bring the bees, they have dark, reddish blooms that stink. Like, really bad.

The mysteries of how a huge flower that stinks of decaying flesh blooms have been uncovered by scientists. The so-called "corpse flower ", known more formally as the titan arum or Amorphophallus ...

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 small, rosy-purple flowers produced in February and March are so fragrant, it's been scientifically proven that no one can smell one of its flowers without your socks rolling up and down.

With the flower now past its prime, the smell has mostly gone away. However, students and staff told NBC10 it was very pungent over the weekend.

Insects often rely on smell to get around. As they buzz about in their neighborhoods, they learn to associate the flowers that are good sources of nectar and pollen with their scent.