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

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.

The Titan Arum is a large, beautiful, and rare flower. It blooms only once every 10 years and is only in bloom for two to ...

An aerial drone photo taken on April 5, 2025 shows blossoms along a road in Hongfenghu Township in Qingzhen City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Photo: Xinhua) An aerial drone photo taken on ...

(Xinhua/Wu Zhizun) People enjoy flowers at the Zijingang campus of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, April 6, 2025. (Xinhua/Han Chuanhao) Students walk past ...

It is a summer bloomer, growing well in hardiness zones 6 to 9, and as is the case with its bigleaf cousins, the flower color will change based on the acidity of the soil. It's not uncommon for the ...

Gardeners will appreciate something new to read during their breaks from weeding. Sandra Knapp’s “Flower Day,” evocatively illustrated in black and white by Katie Scott, describes 24 flowers ...

Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) is a rock star in the plant world. The infrequent and foul-smelling blooms of the so-called “corpse flower” — housed in ... surrounding these events — including the ...

“Usually, you have to get close to a flower to be able to smell it,” said biologist Olivia Murrell. “That is not true for the corpse flower ... known as titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum ...

Of the corpse ... bloom is rare and short-lived — lasting just 24 to 48 hours — gardens often hold events for visitors to experience the infamous stench firsthand. "Usually, you have to get close to a ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized.

Generally speaking, inbred plants might not produce as much pollen or might ... Because male and female corpse flowers bloom at different times, the flowers in these living collections rely ...