The tall and rare plant is commonly known as the titan arum, or “corpse flower.” One whiff is all the explanation necessary. When another corpse flower bloomed earlier this year at the ...

Looking for an extraordinary spectacle to take part in this weekend? Go see the elusive African Corpse Flower at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, a species known for its potent smell, which is having ...

The smell comes from the corpse flower trying to reproduce ... and it’ll take a break for a few years to kind of recover from the cost of reproduction,” according to Ned Friedman, director ...

Instead, crowds saw a 5-foot plant that didn’t smell quite as putrid as they had hoped. The corpse flower, predicted to bloom last week, finally unfurled on Sunday evening, after leaving many ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Visitors to Edinburgh's Botanic Garden have had the chance to experience the rare sight and smell of the so-called "Corpse Flower" in full bloom. The Titan Arum plant, an endangered species that ...

we have added a Black Bat Flower (Tacca chantrieri), a Pelican Flower (Aristolochia gigantea), a coulple Hanging Lobster Claw plants (Heliconia rostrata), and two infamous Corpse Flower plants ...

Visitors to Kew Gardens are still able to catch a glimpse - and whiff - of its titan arum plant, otherwise known as the corpse flower, after it burst into bloom on Tuesday. The flower, which is ...

The endangered Sumatran Titan arum, a giant foul-smelling blossom also known as the corpse flower, went into a rare, short bloom at a botanical garden in Warsaw, drawing crowds who waited for ...

Train fare for a corpse is double the cost of a single first-class ticket ... fare for a dead body is $255.78. Funeral flowers are not included in the Department of Commerce figures.

The corpse flower is the largest flowering plant in the world. At the University of Zurich’s botanical garden, people are lining up to see – and smell – its rare but stinky bloom.