The University of Warsaw Botanical Garden is abuzz with excitement as it hosts a truly extraordinary event. The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), renowned as one of the rarest and most remarkable ...

A close-up shows a large purple and yellow titan arum against a blurred-out background of green plants. Researchers have captured the evolution of foul smells from a blooming corpse flower. The plants ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two ...

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Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping at ...

ST. LOUIS — A rare plant known for its foul and intense smell is about to bloom at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Octavia, a 148-pound titan arum, commonly known as a "corpse flower," is expected to ...

CLEVELAND — The smell of rotting meat isn’t usually a sign of a must-see attraction. Here's one exception to the rule: the "corpse flower" at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron is now in bloom. The ...

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Nature lovers are in for a rare − and odorific − treat at the New York Botanical Garden, just in time for Halloween. "It’s happening soon! Our corpse flower has grown by leaps and bounds this week, ...