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Dozens of people turned out to witness the rare unfurling of a tropical plant that emits a powerful stench at a botanical ...
The Huntington has had many corpse flowers fruit since its first display in 1999, and it’s used the seeds from those fruits to grow new plants for its collection and for other botanic gardens ...
It's sweaty, stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanic Gardens, where the season's first rare corpse flower bloom is expected by July 23.
Corpse flowers smell bad as a way to attract pollinators that are drawn to the scent of rotting flesh. ... However, don’t eat them. Their fruit is poisonous to humans.
Odora is the 26th corpse flower at The Huntington since 1999. She’s ready to bloom, a display that draws crowds, not despite but because of its smell.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Capturing the attention of nearly 20,000 people when it first bloomed in 2019, Titan VanCoug, the corpse flower that lives on the first floor of Washington State University ...
NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived event: its corpse flower is blooming — but only for the weekend, most likely.
The Missouri Botanical Garden announced that one of its titan arums, or "corpse flowers," is likely to bloom sometime between May 29 and June 5. This particular plant, named Lucy, is 7 years old ...
Sydney’s long-awaited corpse flower has finally bloomed, drawing flies, creating hours-long queues and capturing thousands of online viewers. She will only remain in this state for around 24 hours.
The Huntington has had many corpse flowers fruit since its first display in 1999, and it's used the seeds from those fruits to grow new plants for its collection and for other botanic gardens that ...