There's a reason it's called the "corpse flower". It smells "like there is a dead rotten animal somewhere," Solène Dequiret, Princess of Wales Conservatory Supervisor at Kew Gardens, told IFLScience.

This stunning but stinky bloom of a corpse flower unfurled on 18 June at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, but it will only be around briefly – they tend to last for just 24 to 36 hours.

Visitors to Kew Gardens are still able to catch a glimpse - and whiff - of its titan arum plant, otherwise known as the corpse flower, after it burst into bloom on Tuesday, external. The flower ...

A plant dubbed the 'corpse flower' for its foul smell has attracted huge queues of visitors eager to get a whiff. Kew Gardens said the massive titan arum plant bloomed on Tuesday, prompting people ...

Visitors to Kew Gardens can still catch a glimpse, and whiff, of its titan arum plant, otherwise known as the corpse flower, after it burst into bloom. The flower, which is said to stink like ...

Hundreds of green-thumbed enthusiasts descended on Kew Gardens in London this week to catch a glimpse of a rare bloom of the 'world smelliest flower'.. The towering three-metre Sumatran plant can ...

For one, the botanical gardens houses more than 50,000 different plants, as well as a library packed with 750,000 botany-focused texts and 7 million preserved flowers and plants.

Kew Gardens tickets are less expensive bought online in advance and are also available at the gate. The flower was brought to Kew Gardens in the late 1800s, and its first bloom was recorded in 1889.

Visitors to Kew Gardens can still catch a glimpse, and whiff, of its titan arum plant, otherwise known as the corpse flower, after it burst into bloom.