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A giant Titan Arum, nicknamed the "corpse flower" because of its stench of rotting flesh, has flowered at Paignton Zoo in Devon. The flower is one of the biggest in the world and can grow up to 3 ...
Tony Holland gawked at the sprawling flower, which jutted more than 6 feet above him. Its distinct, rancid odor cut through the air, like rotting flesh. It was Holland’s dream come true. “Just to be ...
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Good news if you're a fan of exotic flowers and/or the stifling scent of decay - Washington State University Vancouver's resident corpse flower is getting ready to unleash its foul ...
Visitors at the University of California, Riverside’s Botanic Gardens were witness to a rare and smelly sight last weekend. A titan arum — also known as a corpse plant or corpse flower — dubbed ...
SEATTLE — In a rare event, the world's largest unbranched inflorescence is in bloom at The Spheres at Amazon's South Lake Union campus in Seattle. The titan arum's inflorescence can reach over 10 feet ...
The United Kingdom has royal baby watch. Zoo Atlanta had panda baby watch. Now Washington has stinky flower watch. The enormous plant known as the corpse flower is expected to bloom and stink up the ...
There’s something rotten in the kingdom of Great Britain. One of the smelliest plants on Earth is about to bloom in London. Not in the street, but in the tropical rainforest glasshouse of Kew Gardens, ...
If you smell a rotting corpse, it could be one of two things: an actual rotting corpse, or—if you’re lucky—just a giant smelly flower called titan arum. Now, scientists have identified the molecular ...
Two of America’s rare penis flowers went soft as quickly as they popped up last week. A pair of the world’s biggest, stinkiest botanicals bloomed at gardens in California last week — unleashing a ...
SAN JOSE -- The rare, smelly tropical plant known as the "corpse flower" is set to bloom for the first time ever in Silicon Valley on the grounds of San Jose State University. The botanical behemoth, ...
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 ...