Also known as the ‘corpse flower’, is one of the world’s rarest plants – and the smelliest. Only around 1,000 specimens are ...
It's the smell Sydney has been anticipating for weeks, and the Royal Botanic Gardens' corpse flower has today begun to bloom. Thousands of people have visited the plant in person, and tuned in online ...
We found that the female flowers do most of the work attracting pollinators, as previous studies noted. They emit vast ...
Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans flock to see them—and, perhaps more importantly, to smell them. These large, ...
Crowds were continuing to gather Friday at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, where another "Corpse Flower" is nearing an odiferous bloom. The bloom, which typically lasts ...
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 ...
A rare corpse flower is about to bloom in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Dover is delighted to host the rare amorphophallus titanum for its long, long-awaited bloom.
Visitors will have a chance Wednesday to experience the pungent smell of the corpse flower that is blooming at St. Paul's Como Park Zoo and Conservatory. The flower, affectionately named "Frederick," ...
The corpse flower, which appears only once every few years, smells like a rotting corpse, and is pollinated by flies, is in bloom for the very first time at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas.
Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping at ...