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

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.

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 ...

Inside the hot, humid greenhouse at Summit Sprouts, Sarah Dormer leaned in close to the blooming amorphophallus konjac, took a deep breath and recoiled, gagging.

It’s sometimes called a lily, but it’s an arum ... stench of death attract these insects to what appears to be a rotting corpse. Even better, the plant heats up its flowering structure ...