Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

Across the globe, certain flowers exhibit the rare phenomenon of blooming only once in their lifetime or infrequently. These ...

San Francisco's notorious corpse flower 'Chanel' is about to bloom at the Conservatory, bringing crowds eager to smell its ...

Indiana University's beloved corpse flower, Wally, recently bloomed. When will the rare sight and horrible smell happen again ...

This summer, the Sundquist Science Complex Greenhouse will once again be the place to see a blooming corpse flower.

Grogan told 22News that it isn’t easy to take care of these flowers due to their irregular life cycle. The flower will begin to smell like a corpse as early as next week. Local News Headlines ...

Corpse flowers, or Amorphophallus titanum, are a species of plant native to the Indonesian rainforest. They only bloom after storing up sufficient energy, which, according to the U.S. Botanical Garden ...

The life of a corpse flower starts with planting a seed which will grow and develop a corm. After germination, the corm will sprout a single leaf shoot that's around 6 inches tall.

Odora is the 26th corpse flower at The Huntington since 1999. ... “We’d love for people to understand the typical life cycle of this amazing plant,” he said.

The corpse flower stores its energy in a swollen base at the stem–called a corm–that weighs about 100 pounds. Corpse flowers have the largest known corm in the plant kingdom .