The corpse flower only blooms when it has sufficient energy to do so, according to United States Botanic Garden. The plant's energy is stored in the corm – a swollen stem base typically weighing ...

When a corpse flower blooms, the spadix heats up to temperatures of up to 98°F as the plant unleashes a stench akin to rotting flesh. “Those pulses of heat cause the air to rise, like a chimney ...

Corpse flowers have a long life span, 30-40 years, and they bloom quite rarely, on average every 7-10 years. An Italian botanist named Odoardo Beccari collected seeds from the corpse flower while ...

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 .

The corpse flower is one of several types of flowers that smell like rotting meat to attract pollinators such as flies (see graphic). Listen Now. Enjoy the audio version of this article!

DENVER, Colo. - Can't stop hearing about this amazing corpse flower at the Denver Botanic Garden? It's supposed to bloom any day now. But before it opens and starts to stink up Denver, we thought ...

What a stink! The third and final corpse flower has started to open, Monday, 8/28/17. The smelly bloom stands at almost 100 inches or over 8 feet tall, a record for the U.S. Botanic Garden. The U ...

SCIENCE FACTS: Titan Arum is a very proper name for a very large flora, but we humans tend to call it by its catchier, more mordant moniker: Corpse Flower. It's a flower that doesn't come along ...

The smelly corpse flower is back -- and this year there are three flowers ready to bloom at the U.S. Botanic Gardens in the nation's capital. The plants went on display Tuesday and are expected to ...

A corpse flower's bloom is a rare occurrence since the plant's first bloom occurs after eight to 20 years of vegetative growth. The second bloom can happen every three to five years.

Thousands of people endured the hourlong wait Tuesday to get up close and personal with Titan VanCoug, an 18-year-old corpse flower in bloom for the first time.