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

Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Austin Peay State University’s corpse flower, “Athena,” is in full bloom. Athena is the little ...

Indiana University's beloved corpse flower, Wally, recently bloomed. When will the rare sight and horrible smell happen again ...

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

Phil – one of Cal State Long Beach’s rare corpse flowers – is getting ready to bloom, even as early as Saturday, said the university’s botanical curator.

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 'perfectly putrid' corpse flower is drawing crowds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it blooms for the first time since its arrival in 2018.

A heatmap of the corpse flower (right) compared to a visible light image (left). The titan arum heats up about 20 degrees Fahrenheit over the ambient temperature when the flower blooms.

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 ...

Phil – one of Cal State Long Beach’s rare corpse flowers – is getting ready to bloom, even as early as Saturday, said the university’s botanical curator.