You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden.

Big, bold, stinky: The Rafflesia flower is a rotting spectacle in the highlands From explosive blooms to eco-treks, uncover ...

Sprindis added that the flower, much like the “corpse flower” (aka Amorphophallus titanum), will also “smell like rotting flesh. The flower is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra and ...

Titan arum produce a pungent aroma that smells like rotting flesh to attract pollinators, such as flies and beetles. Drew Angerer / Getty Images Why are corpse flower records so spotty in the ...

A finicky flower Nicknamed for its smell, the corpse flower emits an odor that mimics rotting flesh when it blooms. A clever evolutionary trick, the pungent odor attracts flies and carrion beetles ...

The soil has to have a lot of aeration to prevent rotting, and the greenhouse’s temperature must be above 65 degrees at all times. San Jose State got its corpse flower as a 6-inch seedling from ...

Nicknamed for its smell, the corpse flower emits an odor that mimics rotting flesh when it blooms. A clever evolutionary trick, the pungent odor attracts flies and carrion beetles, the plant's ...

The flower was given its name because the strong odour it emits when it blooms has been compared to rotting flesh. In 2016, visitors to a corpse flower in New York described its smell as “filthy ...

Hint: The corpse flower's perfume is said to resemble the odor of rotting flesh, hence its name. These sweetly scented, light-colored flowers bloom in the late afternoon and evening, just in time ...

Due to the peak bloom’s short window, Policicchio is inviting locals to his office, 933 Butternut Drive, from 8:30-a.m.-5 p.m ...