Dozens of people turned out to witness the rare unfurling of a tropical plant that emits a powerful stench at a botanical ...

Amorphophallus titanum. That's probably not something in your everyday vocabulary, but if you say corpse flower to a San ...

This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday.

The corpse flower stores its energy in a swollen base at the stem–called a corm–that weighs about 100 pounds. Corpse flowers have the largest known corm in the plant kingdom.

NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived event: its corpse flower is blooming — but only for the weekend, most likely.

A new study on titan arum—commonly known as the corpse flower for its smell like rotting flesh—uncovers fundamental genetic pathways and biological mechanisms that produce heat and odorous ...

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. New York | This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can ...

The corpse flower lives up to its nickname. Native to Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia, the giant tropical plant can live for decades and grow over 12 feet tall, but its most famous for the ...

Tall, pointed, and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest.

A heatmap of the corpse flower (right) compared to a visible light image (left). The titan arum heats up about 20 degrees Fahrenheit over the ambient temperature when the flower blooms.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Capturing the attention of nearly 20,000 people when it first bloomed in 2019, Titan VanCoug, the corpse flower that lives on the first floor of Washington State University ...

Live from the Gardens of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco as the corpse flower is about to bloom. Credit: Gardens of Golden ...