The world’s largest and stinkiest flower has bloomed again at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. The aptly named ‘corpse flower’ occurs naturally in Indonesia and uses its foul scent to attract ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the world’s biggest and smelliest flowers has finally blossomed at a zoo - treating visitors to the stench of rotting meat. The Titan Arum was planted at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in ...

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 ...

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 ...

With all due respect to the Cal State Fullerton soccer team, there likely isn’t a smellier Titan on campus than this one: the titan arum. This rare tropical flower in the biology greenhouses bloomed ...

The bloom of the titan arum grows to more than two metres tall. It certainly looks like a flower—albeit one which smells like a dead possum—but is it? Tim Entwisle, the director of Melbourne’s Royal ...

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 ...

For botanists, it doesn't get more exciting than this - after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom. For curious crowds who gathered, they perhaps realised that a ...