Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

Across the globe, certain flowers exhibit the rare phenomenon of blooming only once in their lifetime or infrequently. These ...

Corpse flowers, or Amorphophallus titanum, are a species of plant native to the Indonesian rainforest. They only bloom after ...

A rare plant housed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, infamous for its putrefying stench, is on the verge of blooming. State of play: Affectionately nicknamed Chanel by staff, the Titan ...

Hundreds line up outside gas station: People want a whiff of a rare, smelly 'corpse flower' Misshapen, mighty and shortlived. Amorphophallus is from the Ancient Greek word amorphos, meaning ...

The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived event: its corpse flower is blooming — but only for ...

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. These ...

Native to the rainforests of western Sumatra in Indonesia, corpse flowers are infamous for their stench. To attract ...

One of the rare, stinky corpse flowers at the Como Zoo Conservatory is blooming. The flower only blooms once every two to ...

A corpse flower blooming in Cairns, Australia, in January 2018. ... The plant can live over 30 to 40 years – meaning it only blooms a handful of times in its entire lifetime.

Come for the flower, flee from the stench: when a titan arum blooms, crowds come to marvel – and retch. Pictured: a child at the blooming of the titan arum in Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens in 2023.