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 ...
Description: The word "spectacular" is often overused in our culture these days but, if anything, this description may be understated in describing the flowering of the giant titan arum plant. The ...
'It smells like a food bin that's overflowing': The weird biology of the giant smelly 'corpse plant'
It takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are still unravelling the baffling lifecycle of the titan arum. I'm in a row of people shuffling ...
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 ...
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 ...
Over the weekend, hundreds of visitors at UNC Charlotte’s McMillan Greenhouse witnessed the rare blooming of “Odie,” the university’s titan arum plant. You might be thinking, “Big deal. It’s a plant.” ...
The University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley is a sight to behold, but it’s noses that will be held there at the end of this month because of the stench from a notorious flower that’s ...
An estimated 120,000 people have viewed the giant “corpse flower” since it bloomed Sunday at the U.S. Botanic Garden. Photo by Justin Scuiletti. WASHINGTON — After stubbornly staying closed days ...
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 ...
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