The plant you have is an interesting succulent called starfish flower (Stapelia gigantea), which is native to southern Africa ...

A rare corpse flower, known for its massive size and foul stench, will bloom for just 24 to 48 hours. Officials for the ...

If you came across wild ginger, you’d think it looks innocent enough. Its crimson petals curl like velvet tongues, but ...

Visitors are welcome to catch the rare sight — and smell — in person for free. Or watch it bloom through the Huntington's ...

The stinky plant has put up its annual bloom — a 4-foot-tall, cone-shaped stalk surrounded by a blood-red frill. The stalk gives off an odor like rotting flesh to attract flies for pollination ...

"It smells bad to us, but it smells great to flies." Many are chronicling their encounters with the fetid flower on social media—and it sounds like the wait was worth it. So why so much love for ...

So too can the dead horse arum, a plant native to the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia that smells like a dead Mr. Ed. This wily plant can also trap flies in its bloom for about a day ...

The plant Aristolochia microstoma uses a unique trick: its flowers emit a fetid-musty scent that seems to mimic the smell of decomposing insects. Flies from the genus Megaselia (family Phoridae) ...

Some flowers smell really, really bad — like rotting meat. The plants produce awful scents to attract certain pollinators that are drawn by the fragrance of decay. Grow them, but keep them outside.

Proof that beauty is in the eye — not the nose — of the beholder comes with one whiff of this blossom. It's a Stapelia gigantea, a cactuslike succulent also known as the carrion flower, or ...