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

A rare corpse flower that has been growing at Wheaton College is set to bloom at the Garden at Elm Bank, home of ...

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

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A plant is about to create a big stink on Kauaʻi. The National Tropical Botanical Garden in Lāwaʻi ...

A rare corpse flower that has been growing at Wheaton College is set to bloom at the Garden at Elm Bank, home of Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Wellesley.

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 ...

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.

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) ...

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 ...