Commonly called the “corpse flower,” Amorphophallus titanum is endangered for many reasons, including habitat destruction, climate change and encroachment from invasive species. Now, plant biologists ...

A new study on titan arum -- commonly known as the corpse flower for its smell like rotting flesh -- uncovers fundamental genetic pathways and biological mechanisms that produce heat and odorous ...

Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two nights. But those ...

Right now, people are lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens to see and smell the giant corpse flower, a rare plant that stinks like a dead body. This is the titan arum. It’s a plant that makes news ...

The corpse flower already sounds creepy, but people across the country are even more creeped out because these rare blossoms are all blooming at the same time. The flower, which is actually an entire ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized. Without ...

Alice the corpse flower, also known as Amorphophallus titanium, is blooming at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a putrid ...

A corpse flower nicknamed “Green Boy” is anticipated to bloom at the end of this week at the Huntington, releasing its notorious odor. The Huntington has cultivated corpse flowers since 1999 and ...