A rare corpse flower is about to bloom in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Dover is delighted to host the rare amorphophallus titanum for its long, long-awaited bloom.
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 deathlike ...
Master techniques for surviving encounters with the corpse flower.
A corpse flower is ready to bloom again at the Huntington in San Marino. Here is how it looked Wednesday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In the mysterious world of plants at the Huntington, ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two ...
When's the last time you heard of thousands of visitors waiting their turn to smell rotten flesh? It happened during the last weekend in June at Indiana University, when a corpse flower named Wally ...