Newly published research suggests that despite all the pampering corpse flower plants receive from their curators, ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly ...

The so-called "corpse flower", known more formally as the titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum, typically blooms for only a couple of days and can take years—sometimes over a decade—to bloom ...

Pexels There are more than a few reasons to visit Kew Gardens, London’s botanical paradise. For one, the botanical gardens ...

Titan arum, known as the corpse flower, in bloom at San Jose State University on July 27, 2022. Photo by Julia Brown. I could smell it before I saw it. After being led up a secured elevator and ...

Last spring, a Titan specimen in a University of Wisconsin, Madison, greenhouse acted on its sexual juices by raising an 8-foot-long floral spike. 1 Without a hint of shyness, the Wisconsin botany ...

The corpse flower releases its scent due to the need to attract pollinators - which are generally thought to be flies and carrion beetles ...

This is the titan arum. It’s a plant that makes news whenever it flowers in a botanic garden around the world. It’s sometimes called a lily, but it’s an arum, a genus not closely related to true ...