A 6-foot-tall titan arum plant that reeks of rotting flesh when it flowers is blooming at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Often called the "corpse flower," the enormous ...

Corpse plants definitely earn their nickname. Their pungent odors attract not only the carrion insects – beetles and flies normally drawn to decomposing meat – that pollinate the plants, but also ...

A flowering plant infamous for its eye-watering odour and rather cheeky scientific name which began showing signs of a rare bloom on Wednesday has now closed up. In a picture posted by the Cairns ...

A rare, stinky and somewhat sexual spectacle about to unfold at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers has its roots in a Mission District bathroom. Terra the Titan, a titan arum plant also known ...

Visitors at the University of California, Riverside’s Botanic Gardens were witness to a rare and smelly sight last weekend. A titan arum — also known as a corpse plant or corpse flower — dubbed ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Something rare and magnificent is taking place at LA’s Huntington ...

Send congratulations to the Ohio State University Biological Sciences Greenhouse in Columbus. Horticulturists there are witnessing a rare blooming of Amorphophallus titanum, or titan arum, a plant so ...

Leo Song, curator of Cal State Fullerton’s greenhouse, felt like a father-to-be disappointed by false labor. The 8-year-old titan arum plant he tends showed every sign of blooming Wednesday, then didn ...