The office takes a whiff of D.S. & DURGA’s Brown Flowers—and let’s just say this fragrance had noses guessing and reactions ...

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 ...

The 158-acre campus has attracted more than 15 million visitors over the past 30 years, making it the 15th most visited art ...

Skunk cabbage is the first native wildflower to emerge in Chicago’s woodlands in spring. Other ephemerals will follow, ...

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.

But while most plants have attractive and alluring aromas, many species have evolved to do quite the opposite. Take the ...

The revolting smells ... like decaying flesh (people who have smelled it compare it to a rotting water buffalo) and parasitizing other plants for water and nutrients, it's one of the national ...

No other active player has more than six. Michael Phelps' dominance of the pool left the American swimmer with the most Olympic gold medals from any sport — and no one else has more than nine as ...

“One institution reported that, possibly as a result of inbreeding, all their corpse flower offspring were albino ... The researchers recommended that botanists begin to act and think more like their ...

Naturally, this serves a purpose – it's a surefire way to attract pollinators like flies and carrion beetles. But despite the smell ... corpse flowers currently living in 111 gardens and other ...

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The plant also heats up when it blooms, which spreads its smell farther." Gardens go to great lengths to care for these charismatic companions. The corpse flower is one of several "exceptional ...