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 .

People have described the smell of a corpse flower bloom as rotting flesh. A KQED reporter found that description to be spot ...

The rare bloom at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens smells like rotting meat — and it only lasts a few days. CLEVELAND — The smell ...

You don't often find crowds flocking to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, yet that's just what happens when a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. But this iconic endangered plant is ...

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

A rare corpse flower named “Chanel” has entered its brief, foul-smelling bloom at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, drawing ...

So they don't bloom very often, but they also don't bloom for very long, either. The United States Botanic Garden says they ...

The fact that Putricia is the first corpse flower to bloom at the garden in 15 years has fueled her rapid rise to fame. Up to 20,000 admirers have filed past for a moment in her increasingly ...

USBG has a number of corpse flower plants in its collection as part of the conservation work that’s done at the garden. In 2024, USBG put two of the flowers on display beginning on July 13, 2024.

The rare, foul-smelling African corpse flower is in bloom for the first time since 2020 at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Visit before it's too late!

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 ...

The fact that Putricia is the first corpse flower to bloom at the garden in 15 years has fueled her rapid rise to fame. Up to 20,000 admirers have filed past for a moment in her increasingly ...