All 42 known species of the parasitic plant Rafflesia, often known as the corpse flower, are endangered due to runaway destruction of their tropical forest habitats.

Like its better-known “corpse flower” cousin, which gives off a similarly putrid smell, the Amorphophallus gigas is also notable for its central spike, which can grow up to 12 feet tall.

was not the place for a corpse plant to thrive. “It’s been in our collection for slightly longer than these plants would normally take to flower for the first time, so we just didn’t think ...

The corpse flower blooms for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens.

much like the “corpse flower” (aka Amorphophallus titanum), will also “smell like rotting flesh. People watch two blooming plants of the Amorphophallus gigasin the Leiden Botanical Garden in ...

was not the place for a corpse plant to thrive. “It’s been in our collection for slightly longer than these plants would normally take to flower for the first time, so we just didn’t think ...