5 of the world’s smelliest flowers; one smells like a dead body

Here’s a look at five of the smelliest flowers in the world and why they smell the way they do.
Newsweek

This ‘Monstrous’ Flower Attracts Victims by Mimicking Smell of Rotting Corpse

A "monstrous" flower mimics the smell of a rotting corpse in order to attract victims, according to footage shown in David Attenborough's latest BBC series, The Green Planet. The footage, shot in a ...
Yahoo

How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell − it has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work

The corpse plant's bloom appears huge, but its flowers are actually tiny and found in rows inside its floral chamber. John Eisele/Colorado State University Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite ...
WESH

What's that smell? Meet Allan, a corpse flower whose putrid scent drew crowds to a botanical garden

Patron attendance at a botanical garden in California was in full bloom recently as crowds came to see — and smell — a plant named Allan.As one might expect, those packing The Huntington Library's ...
Los Angeles Times

Smell that? A rare corpse flower is about to bloom at the Huntington

It’s sweaty stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens. One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence. In the next 10 to 12 days, expect ...