For a short time only, Vancouver's Bloedel Conservatory is home to a stand of endangered tree echium, or snow tower flower. The plants, native to the Canary Islands, have a two-year lifespan ...

Australian collections of the endangered and notoriously unpredictable flowers have popped off in recent years, as ‘personas’ like Putricia, Stinkerella and Smellanie prove a hit with nosy spectators ...

It’s good to stop and smell the flowers — well, you’re not going to want to stop for long to smell the titan arum when it’s in bloom at the Arnold Arboertum — which is also called the corpse flower.

February 7, 2025, Press Release from Bowling Green State University: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Of the hundreds of plants growing in the Bowling Green State University Greenhouse, perhaps none cause more ...

The Titan Arum, scientifically known as Amorphophallus titanum, is a marvel of the plant kingdom. It boasts the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, a structure so impressive that it draws ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Delphine Farmer, Colorado State University; Mj Riches, Colorado State University, and ...