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Indiana University invites you to visit Wally, the stinky corpse flower, before it blooms for the last time in years.
With its stench of rotting flesh and giant size, Cal Poly’s corpse flower attracts visitors from across SLO County.
If you get stung, the stinging hairs inject that toxin into your skin, giving you a burning and itching feeling along with a ...
Zoo staffers and visitors have been waiting for days to see the flower and smell the stench that comes when Frederick the ...
Some flower species, like the stinking corpse lily in Indonesia, exude a smell like rotting flesh to attract pollen-carrying ...
The corpse flower named “Phil” at Cal State Long Beach has bloomed. The university welcomed community members on Wednesday, ...
Frederick, the “sibling” of last year’s corpse flower sensation at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park in St. Paul ...
Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the world as dead, decaying animal flesh. Instead of bright, attractive ...
You don't often find crowds flocking to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, yet that's just what happens when a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. But this iconic endangered plant is ...
An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...
Those insects, however, must have already come from another active flower, spreading pollen from the male flowers of the first plant to the female flowers of the second.
the corpse flower draws in the crowds Chris Sprindis, the gardener at BBG responsible for the flower’s care, explains, “It smells like rotting flesh because insects drawn to such scents ...