TUCSON, Ariz. -- A rare and truly terrible smell is about to fill the air at the Botanical Gardens in Tucson. The plant known as the corpse flower is expected to bloom some time Friday. The event, ...

Corpse plants definitely earn their nickname. Their pungent odors attract not only the carrion insects – beetles and flies normally drawn to decomposing meat – that pollinate the plants, but also ...

Thousands of visitors are clamoring to catch a glimpse—or a nausea-inducing whiff—of a corpse flower at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, during its rare and fleeting bloom on Tuesday and ...

One of the rare — and pungent — corpse flowers at Cal State Long Beach is set to bloom. The phenomenon could take place as early as Saturday, June 14, said the university’s botanical curator. The ...

A corpse flower is ready to bloom again at the Huntington in San Marino. Here is how it looked Wednesday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In the mysterious world of plants at the Huntington, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Update: The flower is now in bloom. The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers posted their update on Tuesday at around 4:30 p.m. Amorphophallus titanum. That's probably not something ...

The line extended out the door into the pouring rain. We stood as one wet mass of humanity waiting our turn for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. This wasn’t a flash sale on a secret trove of Nintendo ...