Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once ...

GLENCOE, Ill. -- Alice, one of the Chicago Botanic Gardens' eight titan arums or corpse flowers, bloomed overnight and is available for the public to see and smell. The garden announced the flower is ...

The San Diego Botanic Garden eagerly welcomed the pungent stench of a corpse flower, which bloomed for its first time last ...

TUCSON, Ariz. -- A rare and truly terrible smell is about to fill the air at the Botanical Gardens in Tucson. The plant known as the corpse flower is expected to bloom some time Friday. The event, ...

One of the rare — and pungent — corpse flowers at Cal State Long Beach is set to bloom. The phenomenon could take place as early as Saturday, June 14, said the university’s botanical curator. The ...

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 it’s most commonly known as the corpse ...

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 ...

A corpse flower is ready to bloom again at the Huntington in San Marino. Here is how it looked Wednesday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In the mysterious world of plants at the Huntington, ...