The flower has been said to smell like rotting flesh, wet socks or hot cat food, and only stinks for 24 hours after blooming.

Corpse flowers can take anywhere between a couple of years and a decade to open. BBG staff had a feeling the monumental flower was itching to bloom earlier this month when its steady vertical ...

NEW YORK — A foul-smelling corpse flower is ... The BBG says the flower will only be in bloom for a few days before collapsing. The garden will be open Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to ...

The corpse flower only blooms every 7-10 years in its natural habitat. “The fact that they open very rarely, so they flower rarely, is obviously something that puts them at a little bit of a dis ...

Luke Clarke, 52, is one of 30,000 people expected to visit the flower while it’s in bloom. “It was bigger than I thought, the ...

Visitors crowded the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday, January 24, to catch a glimpse of the blooming Amorphophallus gigas, also known as a “corpse flower,” due to its unique stench.

A rare and smelly spectacle is drawing visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where the corpse flower—known scientifically as Amorphophallus gigas — bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, an event ...

Visitors crowded the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday, January 24, to catch a glimpse of the blooming Amorphophallus gigas, ...