Dozens of people turned out to witness the rare unfurling of a tropical plant that emits a powerful stench at a botanical ...

Live from the Gardens of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco as the corpse flower is about to bloom. Credit: Gardens of Golden ...

Across the globe, certain flowers exhibit the rare phenomenon of blooming only once in their lifetime or infrequently. These ...

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences opened a viewing to the public, registration is required. Here is where you can sign up to see Lupin in bloom. The last day to get a whiff of the plant is ...

Grogan told 22News that it isn’t easy to take care of these flowers due to their irregular life cycle. The flower will begin to smell like a corpse as early as next week.

People flock to corpse flower blooms all over the country, given their rarity. Smith College Botanic Garden took to Facebook to acknowledge the upcoming bloom, calling it "a sight to be seen." U2 is ...

U2 is one of 16 corpse flowers in Smith College Botanic Garden's greenhouse. All the flowers are in various stages of their life cycles, with some being dormant and some in their leaf or ...

Does extraterrestrial life smell like the sea? It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

At the center of the flower lies the spadix, which can warm up to about 100 degrees and releases the scent. Toward the growth cycle's end the spadix grows at a rate of about five or six inches a ...

The life cycle depends on the time it takes for the “corm” of the flower to gather enough energy to bloom. This heavy bulb-like structure usually cycles through “leaf” stages, sending up a stem from ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Siemon should have been on hand as curtains fell on the live-streamed corpse flower named Putricia, which drew 1.7 million ...

The corpse flower stores its energy in a swollen base at the stem –called a corm–that weighs about 100 pounds. Corpse flowers have the largest known corm in the plant kingdom.