The mysteries of how a huge flower that stinks of decaying flesh blooms have been uncovered by scientists. The so-called ...

The corpse flower lives up to its nickname. Native to Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia, the giant tropical plant can live for decades and grow over 12 feet tall, but its most famous for the ...

“It smells like dead possum,” a child said more bluntly. It’s the so-called “corpse flower,” or Amorphophallus Titanum (often shortened to Titan Arum), named after the putrid stench it ...

Instead, crowds saw a 5-foot plant that didn’t smell quite as putrid as they had hoped. The corpse flower, predicted to bloom last week, finally unfurled on Sunday evening, after leaving many ...

An Amorphophallus titanium, also known as a corpse flower, blooms for one to three days once every seven to 10 years. During the bloom, it releases a powerful smell, described by some as rotting ...