When these plants first bloom after 7-10 years of growth, they emit a powerful smell to attract beetles for pollination. The ...

Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

San Francisco's notorious corpse flower 'Chanel' is about to bloom at the Conservatory, bringing crowds eager to smell its ...

The time has come for an infamous flower bloom — rare enough to draw crowds — inside a greenhouse at Austin Peay State ...

People view an endangered plant known as the “corpse flower” for its putrid stink, which is about to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

Indiana University's beloved corpse flower, Wally, recently bloomed. When will the rare sight and horrible smell happen again ...

There are thought to be only 300 of the plants in the wild and fewer than 1,000 including those in cultivation. The corpse flower only blooms every 7-10 years in its natural habitat.

A flower is produced when the titan arum has stored enough energy in its underground tuber, known as a corm. Image: People lined up to see last month's corpse flower open in Sydney. Pic: AP ...

Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari is credited with first discovering the corpse flower in 1878. He sent some of the plant’s seeds and tubers back to Europe, and titan arum has been spreading to ...

An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink, is about to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) ...

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 ...

No corpse flower has bloomed at the garden for 15 years. A slow bloomer There are thought to be only 300 of the plants in the wild and fewer than 1,000 including those in cultivation.