A rare flower captivated visitors at this stunning garden in New York City, ... This is why people refer to it as the "corpse flower" or "carcass flower." ...

The flower withers in six to seven days, leaving behind a “rotten banana”-like mush. Finding one is a treasure hunt. Buds can take nine months to mature, and blooms are fleeting.

Berlin is home to, without doubt, the world's most foul-smelling botanical garden at the moment thanks to a massive phallic ...

Think flies buzzing over an animal carcass. ... The corpse flower stores its energy in a swollen base at the stem–called a corm–that weighs about 100 pounds.

It's sweaty, stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanic Gardens, where the season's first rare corpse flower bloom is expected by July 23.

Odora is the 26th corpse flower at The Huntington since 1999. She’s ready to bloom, a display that draws crowds, not despite but because of its smell.