Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful historian, so it took only a few seconds to place it: the stench of the rat ...

There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their ...

Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...

A rare bloom of a corpse flower — with a pungent odor similar to decaying flesh — has attracted big crowds to a botanical garden in the Australian capital Canberra, the third such extraordinary ...

When a line of people are waiting around in Brooklyn, most people would assume they’re waiting for a concert. Instead, crowds flocked to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden eager to witness, but more ...

The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name amorphophallus titanium, bloomed for the first time in its 15 years at ...

There have been similar flowering events in the UK. Kew has a corpse flower, but it rarely commands the same volume of interest. The Amorphophallus titanum, (which means giant misshapen penis – ...

A corpse flower, aptly named Putricia, recently bloomed at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney for the first time in 15 years. For forensic scientist Bridget Thurn, it was a unique opportunity to ...

Sydney's corpse flower Putricia is on display at the Royal Botanic Garden. It will only bloom for about 24 hours before dying. Thousands of people are watching Putricia's live stream on YouTube.

The corpse flower is endangered ... the plant is basically one giant temporary leaf, and its stalk-like petiole is covered in spots to mimic the lichen that grows on hardwood trees.

A giant, rare and notoriously stinky flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over the weekend, drawing hundreds to smell something “putrid.” The Amorphophallus gigas, known as the “corpse flower ...