"This isn’t just a flower—it’s a 10-foot-tall botanical rock star when in full bloom: Rare. Rancid. Ridiculously cool," ...

Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans ...

Reiman Gardens in Ames is inviting the public to experience the “dark side of the bloom” when their corpse flower named Stink ...

Workers at Reiman Gardens in Ames are on "bloom watch" for a rare occurrence that will make for a smelly scene this spring.

or corpse plant, takes about seven years to produce a bloom which only lasts about 48 hours. The rare event drew a crowd more than a week… Read More A giant flower that takes seven years to ...

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

Standing at up to 20 feet tall and stretching 16 feet across, the Sumatran corpse flower is easy for most pollinators to spot, but the plant's scent is what draws these organisms in. The corpse ...

Credit: Mashable But the real attraction is that the plant actually smells like death ... Basically, it's New York City encapsulated in a large flower. The corpse flower is unpredictable with ...

we have added a Black Bat Flower (Tacca chantrieri), a Pelican Flower (Aristolochia gigantea), a coulple Hanging Lobster Claw plants (Heliconia rostrata), and two infamous Corpse Flower plants ...

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.