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

With its stench of rotting flesh and giant size, Cal Poly's corpse flower attracts visitors from across SLO County.

Magnolia, especially the southern grandiflora species (7-9), is another highly aromatic shrub or tree that puts forth large, ...

“It’s a very bad smell,” he notes. But Okuyama and his colleagues managed to follow that stink to a beautiful set of discoveries. A crimson flower of wild ginger.

Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, ... Like, really bad. This class of “carrion flowers” includes many species, ...

The unpleasant smell lingers until the white flowers fall off. That’s not the only reason Bradford pear trees are problematic. Originally thought to be sterile, the Bradford pear tree easily ...

Corpse flowers smell bad as a way to attract pollinators that are drawn to the scent of rotting flesh. Think flies buzzing over an animal carcass.

“When the smell is really bad, at its strongest, it can stick to your clothes, you can be smelling it for days afterwards.” Image caption, Dr Dalberg Poulsen said the plant "may never die" ...

“Young kids will be fascinated, but then run away when it smells too bad.” The public can see and smell the corpse flower during the garden’s opening hours, which run Tuesday through Sunday ...

A heatmap of the corpse flower (right) compared to a visible light image (left). The titan arum heats up about 20 degrees Fahrenheit over the ambient temperature when the flower blooms.

The unpleasant smell lingers until the white flowers fall off. That’s not the only reason Bradford pear trees are problematic. Originally thought to be sterile, the Bradford pear tree easily ...