A rare plant housed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, infamous for its putrefying stench, is on the verge of blooming. State of play: Affectionately nicknamed Chanel by staff, the Titan ...

Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

San Francisco's notorious corpse flower 'Chanel' is about to bloom at the Conservatory, bringing crowds eager to smell its ...

Corpse flower bloom only lasts a short time According to the United States Botanic Garden, the corpse flower is "the largest unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom," and can grow up to 9 ...

Time lapse from yesterday (5/17/25) of the blooming of the Amorphophallus titanum at Reiman Gardens. See it in full bloom today until 11 PM. Average wait time at 8:30 AM is about 45 minutes to an ...

And you can watch a time-lapse video of a corpse flower blooming at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC below (which, fortunately, does not come with smell-o-vision).

The monumental blooming marks the first time an Amorphophallus gigas — a plant native to Sumatra and lovingly nicknamed the corpse flower — has opened its petals at the Crown Heights garden.

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 ...

Washington State University Vancouver’s corpse flower, Titan VanCoug, is seen at the end of its bloom on Monday, July 29, 2024, in Vancouver, Wash. (Amanda Cowan / The Columbian) ...

Now that one has bloomed, Jones hopes that the second flower will follow tonight. Two corpse flowers have already bloomed in 2024, but this is the first time this year that we could have two blooming ...