Sprindis added that the flower, much like the “corpse flower” (aka Amorphophallus titanum), will also “smell like rotting flesh. The flower is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra and ...

NEW YORK (WCBS) — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic ... which doesn’t last long. Why does it smell so bad? “It’s pollenated by flies and beetles that normally ...

It's great to stop and smell the roses, but there are certain flowers you definitely don't want to get a whiff of. While many plants use sweet smells and nectar to attract insects and other animal ...

The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name ... “By Saturday evening, it was incredibly pungent. We could smell it from across the road. It was definitely gag worthy,” Dale said.

They go as many as 10 years or more between flowers. They do not have a regular blooming cycle. Dave Konieczka gets a strong smell of the newly bloomed corpse flower at the Mitchell Park Domes ...