You do not build a jaw-dropping garden with petunias and polite hydrangeas. You build it with plants that make people stop mid-sentence, tilt their heads, and ask, “What on earth is that?” Rare plants ...

Scientists just found one of the rarest and largest flowers on Earth after a 13-year-long hunt, and it was the most emotional moment for the search party! Imagine pushing through thick jungle vines ...

Adelaide’s Titan Arum, nicknamed Smellanie, prepares to fill the air with its notorious rotting-flesh smell as thousands set ...

Things are about to get real smelly at Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. In the next four to 13 days, a Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) — which bears more than a passing ...

Such a big stink over a big flower. The Amorphophallus Titanum, also known as the corpse flower, is nearly ready to bloom at the Tucson Botanical Gardens in Arizona. To get to the point of blooming, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The corpse plant's bloom appears huge, but its flowers are actually tiny and found in rows inside its floral chamber. John ...

Something rotten is preparing to bloom in the Bronx: one of the world's largest flowers that smells like death. The corpse flower at the New York Botanical Garden, with two other examples of ...

After searching for more than 13 years, an Indonesian flower hunter was reduced to tears when he finally came face-to-face with one of the world’s rarest blooms, the notoriously foul-smelling “corpse ...

(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 ...