Jul 10, 2024 · Watch the livestream, check the growth progress chart, and plan your visit. The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the Corpse Flower, produces the largest unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom.

May 6, 2024 · As part of an ongoing conservation project, the US Botanic Garden hosts and breeds more than 20 mature corpse flowers (or “ Amorphophallus Titanum”), which are endangered on their native island of Sumatra, Indonesia.

An Amorphophallus titanum, also known as titan arum, recently bloomed at the Garden in July 2024! Nicknamed the corpse flower due to its rancid smell of rotting flesh, this plant and its extraordinary bloom are a rare occurrence as most require seven to ten years to produce their first blooms, and bloom only every four to five years thereafter.

Aug 25, 2023 · Another rare corpse flower is set to bloom any day now at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, unleashing its notoriously pungent odor into the conservatory.

Jul 19, 2024 · Get ready for a real stinker: the United States Botanic Garden is getting ready for two “Corpse Flowers” to bloom this week. The large tropical flowers (“Amorphophallus Titanium”) are infamous for their unpredictable bloom cycles, towering stature, and pungent odor—think: rotting flesh and humid garbage.

Jan 26, 2025 · The rare Amorphophallus gigas – a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower – has bloomed for the first time since arriving in Brooklyn in 2018. Native to...

Jan 27, 2025 · Now almost six feet tall, it’s one of only ten known plants of its species housed at a botanic garden worldwide. ... Visitors to Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden photograph a blooming corpse flower ...

Jan 17, 2025 · A Rare Corpse Flower Is About To Bloom At Brooklyn Botanic Garden, & It Smells Like Rotting Flesh. The corpse flower will bloom in the coming days, and with it will come its infamous–and extremely stinky–stench.

Jul 6, 2023 · A corpse flower blooms at the Belgian National Botanic Gardens in 2020. The Titan Arum, or corpse flower, has become a rockstar in the plant world for its unpredictable displays, and more...

Amorphophallus titanum is often called corpse flower because when it blooms, it emits a powerful stench similar to that of rotting meat. This scent, along with the deep-red, meaty color of the open spathe, attracts insect pollinators that feed on dead animals.