Like its better-known “corpse flower” cousin, which gives off a similarly putrid smell, the Amorphophallus gigas is also notable for its central spike, which can grow up to 12 feet tall.
This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
The corpse flower at the Australian National Botanic Gardens is at least 15 years old but had never flowered before now.
A flower at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden that emits a noxious smell when it blooms every two to 10 years is expected to pop this week, according to the garden’s staff. The corpse flower ...