Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two nights. But those ...

Right now, people are lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens to see and smell the giant corpse flower, a rare plant that stinks like a dead body. This is the titan arum. It’s a plant that makes news ...

Delphine Farmer receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, and the W.M. Keck ...

It’s about to reek at the Huntington. Think: gym socks, rotten eggs, dead rats trapped in the air vents, stinky. Another rare corpse flower is set to bloom any day now at the Huntington Library, Art ...

Commonly called the “corpse flower,” Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, climate change and encroachment from invasive species. Now, plant biologists ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Everyone seems to be making a big stink about corpse flowers at the United States Botanical Garden (including the plants, themselves). So, what’s the big deal? Well, for one ...

“It is not as large as an Amorphophallus titanum bloom, but its uniquely tall inflorescence is a significantly more rare occurrence,” Brooklyn Botanic Garden gardener Chris Sprindis said in a ...

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