The rare, massive, and very smelly bloom will only last for a couple of days, and the Conservatory of Flowers is offering ...

Every Corpse Flower at The Huntington gets its own quippy name and the 2025 summer celebrity has been gorgeously dubbed Green Boy. Which means Green Boy the Corpse Flower just about the greatest ...

People have described the smell of a corpse flower bloom as rotting flesh. A KQED reporter found that description to be spot ...

A plant at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens called Titan Arum —which gives off a rotting meat smell — is blooming in a brief, ...

When these plants first bloom after 7-10 years of growth, they emit a powerful smell to attract beetles for pollination. The ...

The rare bloom at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens smells like rotting meat — and it only lasts a few days. CLEVELAND — The smell ...

If you haven’t smelled it yet, there’s another corpse flower getting ready to bloom at the San Diego Botanic Garden this week following the appearance of their "sibling" plant a few weeks ago. ...

You don't often find crowds flocking to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, yet that's just what happens when a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. But this iconic endangered plant is ...

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.

There are thought to be only 300 of the plants in the wild and fewer than 1,000 including those in cultivation. The corpse flower only blooms every 7-10 years in its natural habitat.

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.

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.