attracting animals that eat the fruit and spread its seeds. While Rosengreen says someone could grow a corpse flower in their home if they wanted to — “you’ve got to keep it warm and ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden.

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

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

Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping ...

Corpse flowers are rare and endangered and usually ... current flower spike has not been pollinated and won't produce any fruit and, subsequently, seeds. The flower spike, made up of the spathe ...

The corpse flower is native to the dense rainforests ... But people tend to only plant male trees, as the female trees produce a fruit that smells like vomit for many people.

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.