You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly ...

The mysteries of how a huge flower that stinks of decaying flesh blooms have been uncovered by scientists. The so-called "corpse flower", known more formally as the titan arum or Amorphophallus ...

Titan arum, known as the corpse flower, in bloom at San Jose State University on July 27, 2022. Photo by Julia Brown. I could smell it before I saw it. After being led up a secured elevator and ...

Thousands of people have tuned in to watch a livestream of the world’s most foul-smelling plant as it prepares to bloom for the first time in years. The titan arum, also known as the ‘corpse ...

Last spring, a Titan specimen in a University of Wisconsin, Madison, greenhouse acted on its sexual juices by raising an 8-foot-long floral spike. 1 Without a hint of shyness, the Wisconsin botany ...

The corpse flower releases its scent due to the need to attract pollinators - which are generally thought to be flies and carrion beetles ...

This is the titan arum. It’s a plant that makes news whenever it flowers in a botanic garden around the world. It’s sometimes called a lily, but it’s an arum, a genus not closely related to true ...