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We've all heard the adage, "Stop and smell the roses," and Graham really takes it to heart. His video is a wonderful reminder for all of us to slow down and appreciate life. Notice the little things ...
People have described the smell of a corpse flower bloom as rotting flesh. A KQED reporter found that description to be spot ...
These plants smell like rotten meat — Now we know how they do it From the aptly-named carrion flower to the stinking corpse lily, these plants thrive through disgusting odors ...
Magnolia, especially the southern grandiflora species (7-9), is another highly aromatic shrub or tree that puts forth large, ...
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.
One common motif in Victorian painting was a subject smelling flowers, Bradstreet adds. For example, an 1864 portrait by George Frederic Watts shows a young woman pressing a red bloom to her face ...
Like its better-known “corpse flower” cousin, which gives off a similarly putrid smell, the Amorphophallus gigas is also notable for its central spike, which can grow up to 12 feet tall.