TAMPA Fla. - The blossoming of twin "corpse" flowers, whose towering, phallic-shaped blooms reek of rotten flesh, is drawing tourists like flies to what experts are calling a lunar eclipse of the ...
For weeks, Benjamin Snyder scrutinized the prized Amorphophallus titanium – a rare tropical plant better known by its macabre ...
The United States Botanic Garden previously announced that the corpse flowers would bloom between July 19 to July 22. This post has been updated as of today. Get ready for a real stinker: the United ...
Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two nights. But those ...
Anyone who missed the chance to see — and smell — Longwood Gardens’ corpse flower last summer will get another shot in the next week to experience this rare event locally. The Temple University Ambler ...
Commonly called the “corpse flower,” Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, climate change and encroachment from invasive species. Now, plant biologists ...
Right now, people are lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens to see and smell the giant corpse flower, a rare plant that stinks like a dead body. This is the titan arum. It’s a plant that makes news ...