Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden.

Incomplete data results in reduced genetic diversity and contributes to population decline. Commonly known as the “corpse ...

Brian O’Brien, resident corpse flower expert, says there is more to the flower than just a bad smell. “And the reason it does this is, of course is to attract pollinators because people don ...

Commonly called the "corpse flower," Amorphophallus titanum is endangered ... all plants in that population are more likely to suffer. We don't think people are consciously making the choice ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions ... We don't think people are consciously making the choice to inbreed their plants.

and UC Santa Cruz’s arboretum and botanic garden just saw its corpse flower bloom overnight Monday after initially declaring it unlikely to bloom July 30.) “It’s great for people to learn a ...