Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...
Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful ...
When a line of people are waiting around in Brooklyn, most people would assume they’re waiting for a concert. Instead, crowds ...
There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their ...
The corpse flower or corpse plant, known as bunga bangkai in its native Indonesia, is endemic to the rainforests of western Sumatra. It only blooms for a few days every 7 to 10 years in its ...
Image: People lined up to see last month's corpse flower open in Sydney. Pic: AP Ms Dale said: "One of the theories is that a lot of these plants are of a similar age, so they have just stored up ...
Out of the 12 best botanical gardens in the U.S., half of them are within 600 miles of Cincinnati. Here are four of them ...
was not the place for a corpse plant to thrive. "It's been in our collection for slightly longer than these plants would normally take to flower for the first time, so we just didn't think we had the ...