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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – The corpse flower at Smith College’s botanical garden in Northampton is set to bloom. The ...
The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived event: its corpse flower is blooming — but only for ...
A corpse flower is the largest unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom, boasts a powerful stink and blooms for just 2-3 ...
Frederick, the “sibling” of last year’s corpse flower sensation at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park in St. Paul ...
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.
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 ...
Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a ...
NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent. Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for ...
Two of the U.S. Botanical Garden's corpse flowers, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, are expected to reach peak bloom between July 19-22. According to officials, this will be the first time ...
It’s sweaty stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens. One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence. In the next 10 to 12 days ...
Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping ...