Move over pumpkin spice, it’s cempasúchitl flowers (marigolds) season. Towards the end of October, the flower of the dead will take its place on altars, in graveyards and on tombstones to honor and ...

The United States Botanic Garden smelled distinctly like a dead body last night, but there wasn’t any foul play involved. One of the garden’s fleeting, foul-smelling “Corpse Flowers” opened in the ...

Thousands of visitors are clamoring to catch a glimpse—or a nausea-inducing whiff—of a corpse flower at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC during its rare and fleeting bloom on Tuesday and ...

Flor Jimenez waters her crop of cempasuchil flowers in preparation for Day of the Dead celebrations in Xochimilco where marigolds are grown on the outskirts of Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025.