The rare bloom at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens smells like rotting meat — and it only lasts a few days. CLEVELAND — The smell ...

People have described the smell of a corpse flower bloom as rotting flesh. A KQED reporter found that description to be spot ...

Visitors view and smell the corpse flower at the Huntington in 2009. This year, you can view it on YouTube. (Jake Stevens / Los Angeles Times) The botanical world is confirming what we already ...

When the corpse flower last bloomed at Cal Poly in 2020, around 3,000 people came to see it. The university has had two other blooms since then, but they were not open for public viewing.

The corpse flower at the California Academy of Sciences bloomed Tuesday, and visitors will have to make their way over quickly to get a glimpse, and a whiff, of the flower.

The alien-like blooms and putrid stench of Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the corpse flower, draw big crowds and media coverage to botanical gardens each year.In 2015, for instance ...

Despite the corpse flower’s fame, its future is uncertain. Some botanists call it the panda of the pollen-producing world because of its fickle reproduction style.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The corpse flower is a giant plant known for its rank smell. But it has a rich and racy history. The corpse flower is native to Indonesia. It was discovered in 1878. The first ...