In late winter, in the swampy lowlands of the northeastern United States, you might catch a whiff of rotting flesh. The unlikely source is flowers—maroon pointy things, the size of fists, that ...

ST. PETER, MINN. — The stench of rotting flesh mingled with Fourth of July smells like hotdogs on the grill and freshly mown grass on Independence Day in this college town. The corpse flower burst ...

SAN MARINO, Calif. (KABC) -- The corpse flower, also known as the "world's largest flower," will soon be bloom at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. The rare ...

This video is no longer available. It’s big, it’s beautiful and it’s stinky. It’s also in bloom in D.C., though not for long. The scientific name for the giant plant is Amorphophallus titanum. But ...

The Titan Arum, or corpse flower, has become a rockstar in the plant world for its unpredictable displays, and more notoriously, its putrid stench of rotting flesh. What is it? The very large ...

In Jerusalem recently, I spotted a brilliant yellow rose and longed to know its origin. It had wound its way up a giant yucca (Yucca gigantea/elephantipes), and some of its flowers extruded from the ...