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

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

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

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

"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 ...

The flower secretes a stinky smell to attract beetles and flies for pollination. The corpse flower bloom is rare, as it is native to rainforests of an Indonesian island.

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 ...

Its flower smells like a honeybee under attack—an odor that freeloading, meal-seeking flies find absolutely irresistible.