The plant uses this scent to mimic a rotting corpse, attracting pollinators that feed on flesh and lay eggs, such as carrion beetles and flies.

Thousands of visitors are clamoring to catch a glimpse—or a nausea-inducing whiff—of a corpse flower at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, during its rare and fleeting bloom on Tuesday and ...

Something rotten is preparing to bloom in the Bronx: one of the world's largest flowers that smells like death. The corpse flower at the New York Botanical Garden, with two other examples of ...