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 ...

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 ...

A 'corpse flower' is about to bloom at McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach. Garden is livestreaming the rare event. The flower emits a smell similar to rotting flesh. Fascinated by the bizarre? How ...

A corpse flower nicknamed “Green Boy” is anticipated to bloom at the end of this week at the Huntington, releasing its notorious odor. The Huntington has cultivated corpse flowers since 1999 and ...

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 ...

Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping at ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized. Without ...

Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every ...

Thousands of visitors are clamoring to catch a glimpse—or a nausea-inducing whiff—of a corpse flower at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC during its rare and fleeting bloom on Tuesday and ...