The Smith College Botanic Garden is welcoming a foul-smelling friend to its facility. The botanical garden posted a photo on Facebook, announcing the arrival of a titan arum, expected to flower in the ...

This remarkable flower is as notorious for its fragrance as it is for its size. Commonly, known as the ‘corpse flower’, it produces an odour resembling that of rotting flesh when in bloom. This stench ...

Few plants command as much fascination as Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the corpse flower. Native to the rainforests of western Sumatra in Indonesia, this remarkable plant is renowned for ...

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 ...

SOUTH HADLEY — It was not the sweet smell of flowers that greeted Thomas Clark on Tuesday morning, but the pungent smell of sulfur, sweat and rotting flesh. The director and curator of the Mount ...

There are some flowers which people love to admire because of their beauty. Then there are those flowers that are extremely ...

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 nights. But those ...