When these plants first bloom after 7-10 years of growth, they emit a powerful smell to attract beetles for pollination. The ...

Last week, the US Botanic Garden was abuzz with the beginning of two corpse flower blooms. But there’s another one to see—and it’s made of Legos. Master builder Andrew Litterst finished the ...

Across the globe, certain flowers exhibit the rare phenomenon of blooming only once in their lifetime or infrequently. These ...

A corpse flower begins to bloom at San Jose State University, Friday, July 22, 2022. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) The plant actually gets hot, approaching the 98.6 degrees of the human body.

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 ...

The corpse flower stores its energy in a swollen base at the stem–called a corm–that weighs about 100 pounds. Corpse flowers have the largest known corm in the plant kingdom .

A titan arum — also known as a corpse plant or corpse flower — dubbed “Little Miss Stinky” bloomed in full for the first time since first being grown from a seed in 1999, university ...

Sydney’s long-awaited corpse flower has finally bloomed, drawing flies, creating hours-long queues and capturing thousands of online viewers. She will only remain in this state for around 24 hours.

Blooms don’t last long either, Nickerson said, explaining that she anticipates the 4-foot-tall corpse flower will start to close Wednesday, and go back to being a tree.

People view an endangered plant known as the “corpse flower” for its putrid stink, which is about to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

When 7-year-old Corpsey blooms, it will be the first time the plant does into a flower. Kevin Hauser said it will be only the sixth to bloom ever in the state of Michigan. But that's not all.

People watch Titan VanCoug manager Dawn Freeman, second from right, and classroom support technician Mark Owens, right, work on the blooming corpse flower Friday, June 30, 2023, at WSU Vancouver.