San Francisco's notorious corpse flower 'Chanel' is about to bloom at the Conservatory, bringing crowds eager to smell its ...

Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

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 ...

The corpse flower at Smith College’s botanical garden in Northampton is set to bloom. The botanical garden of Smith College had many people interested in the official bloom of the corpse flower, but ...

A rare plant housed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, infamous for its putrefying stench, is on the verge of blooming. State of play: Affectionately nicknamed Chanel by staff, the Titan ...

The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived event: its corpse flower is blooming — but only for the weekend, most likely.

Corpse flowers, or Amorphophallus titanum, are a species of plant native to the Indonesian rainforest. They only bloom after storing up sufficient energy, which, according to the U.S. Botanical Garden ...

Zoo staffers and visitors have been waiting for days to see the flower and smell the stench that comes when Frederick the ...

So they don't bloom very often, but they also don't bloom for very long, either. The United States Botanic Garden says they ...

Corpse flowers give off the intense smell to attract pollinators in nature, which include carrion beetles and flies.