Zoo staffers and visitors have been waiting for days to see the flower and smell the stench that comes when Frederick the ...

Inbred corpse flowers might produce less pollen, or they may die right after they bloom, ... meaning botanists often have to play an active role in their reproduction by facilitating pollination.

The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived event: its corpse flower is blooming — but only for ...

Hundreds line up outside gas station: People want a whiff of a rare, smelly 'corpse flower' Misshapen, mighty and shortlived. Amorphophallus is from the Ancient Greek word amorphos, meaning ...

A corpse flower blooming in Cairns, Australia, in January 2018. ... The plant can live over 30 to 40 years – meaning it only blooms a handful of times in its entire lifetime.

The Missouri Botanical Garden announced that one of its titan arums, or "corpse flowers," is likely to bloom sometime between May 29 and June 5. This particular plant, named Lucy, is 7 years old ...