The corpse flower lives up to its nickname. Native to Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia, the giant tropical plant can live for decades and grow over 12 feet tall, but its most famous for the deathlike ...

Renowned for their size and stench, blooming corpse flowers are a rare occurrence. But to have four flowering in a week is ...

The United Kingdom has royal baby watch. Zoo Atlanta had panda baby watch. Now Washington has stinky flower watch. The enormous plant known as the corpse flower is expected to bloom and stink up the ...

Tony Holland gawked at the sprawling flower, which jutted more than 6 feet above him. Its distinct, rancid odor cut through the air, like rotting flesh. It was Holland’s dream come true. “Just to be ...

A close-up shows a large purple and yellow titan arum against a blurred-out background of green plants. Researchers have captured the evolution of foul smells from a blooming corpse flower. The plants ...

Four large plants famous for their terrible odour are expected to bloom at the Cairns Botanic Gardens this week.

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 large, ...

While the Chicago Botanic Garden has an extensive variety of plants on its sprawling 385-acre campus, one flower in particular is hard to miss. That's not only because of its gigantic size but its ...

Last spring, a Titan specimen in a University of Wisconsin, Madison, greenhouse acted on its sexual juices by raising an 8-foot-long floral spike. 1 Without a hint of shyness, the Wisconsin botany ...