The United Kingdom has royal baby watch. Zoo Atlanta had panda baby watch. Now Washington has stinky flower watch. The enormous plant known as the corpse flower is expected to bloom and stink up the ...

Tony Holland gawked at the sprawling flower, which jutted more than 6 feet above him. Its distinct, rancid odor cut through the air, like rotting flesh. It was Holland’s dream come true. “Just to be ...

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 ...

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, ...

The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers has launched a livestream of one of its famously stinky corpse flowers, allowing fans to watch the rare bloom without enduring its pungent smell. The plant, ...

No one has been murdered on the Virginia Tech campus. But if you happen to be walking near the Tech University Greenhouse complex, you might be excused for thinking it. The world?s smelliest plant, ...

ST. LOUIS — After nearly two weeks of waiting, Octavia the corpse flower has officially started blooming at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Viewers can now stop by the garden to catch a glimpse—and a ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND — The smell of rotting meat isn’t usually a sign of a must-see attraction. Here's one exception to the rule: the "corpse flower" at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron is now in bloom. The ...

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 ...