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Fair to say, almost all of us are familiar with corn. But that doesn't mean it can't be tricky to tell whether corn on the ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens. For the ...

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It's a stinky situation at the Cal Poly Plant Conservatory this week as a giant corpse flower has begun its long-awaited ...

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

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

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Squirrels are deterred by the smell of mint. While it hasn't been outright proven, placing candy canes outdoors could ...

There are a lot of words used to describe how plants look or smell — think fragrant, prickly, tall or climbing. But there are ...

Frederick, the “sibling” of last year’s corpse flower sensation at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park in St. Paul ...

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, ...