Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A titan arum doesn’t flower annually, and instead undergoes a short blooming cycle once every five to seven years. Over just a few ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Good news if you're a fan of exotic flowers and/or the stifling scent of decay - Washington State University Vancouver's resident corpse flower is getting ready to unleash its foul ...

Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans flock to see them—and, perhaps more importantly, to smell them. These large, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It stayed closed for several years. Now the blossom of the so-called corpse plant can be marvelled at for a short time only. Bring ...

If you smell a rotting corpse, it could be one of two things: an actual rotting corpse, or—if you’re lucky—just a giant smelly flower called titan arum. Now, scientists have identified the molecular ...

(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 ...

A heatmap of titus arum, or the corpse flower, shows that the plant's central towering spike known as the appendix heats up to about 20 degrees Fahrenheit over the ambient temperature when the flower ...

Although the scent of damp, dense, greenery is overwhelming, it is the rotten fish smell that overpowers your nostrils. As you step closer, the monstrous spadix and purple flower come into view ...

Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping at ...