After 13 years, Indonesian conservationist finds one of the world’s rarest flowers—it steals genes and smells like rotten ...
After a 13-year quest, scientists discovered the extremely rare Rafflesia hasseltii flower in Sumatra's rainforests. This ...
Joe Pye (the plant) is also known as Queen of the Meadow and gravel root. Traditionally, it has been used to lower fever and ...
What to avoid when encountering a corpse flower.
Cottonweed, which is part of the daisy family, was first noted by the botanist John Goodyer on Hayling Island, Hampshire, in ...
Corpse plants definitely earn their nickname. Their pungent odors attract not only the carrion insects – beetles and flies normally drawn to decomposing meat – that pollinate the plants, but also ...
May flowers bring November showers for these intrepid biologists. A flower hunter was moved to tears after encountering a super-rare species of bloom in Sumatra, Indonesia, marking the culmination of ...
A viral video shows a flower hunter crying with joy after finally finding the elusive “corpse flower” he’d been chasing for ...