Nearly 1000 people rushed to the Australian National Botanic Gardens over the weekend to see - and, more importantly, ...
The corpse flower at the Australian National Botanic Gardens is at least 15 years old but had never flowered before now.
A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...
It’s really exciting.” The monumental blooming marks the first time an Amorphophallus gigas — a plant native to Sumatra and lovingly nicknamed the corpse flower — has opened its petals at ...
NEW YORK — A foul-smelling corpse flower is blooming at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The BBG said around New Year's Eve, a gardener noticed the plant's inflorescence was starting to emerge and ...
The incredible botanical coincidence comes just two and a half weeks after the flower named Putricia became a global ...
The infamous flower known for its rotting, putrid smell started blooming on Friday. It's called the "corpse flower" — otherwise known as titus-arum or amorphophallus titanum — and the Brooklyn ...
Its species name, Amorphophallus titanum, meanwhile, means "titanic misshaped penis" in Ancient Greek. These names are accurate descriptions. Some corpse flowers have been known to grow three meters ...
The corpse flower life cycle.Credit: Huntington Botanical Gardens and California Science Centre When the leaf dies, the bud gets another rare opportunity to flower. After its short bloom ...
Out of the 12 best botanical gardens in the U.S., half of them are within 600 miles of Cincinnati. Here are four of them ...