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Visitors to Australia’s Geelong Botanic Gardens got a big whiff of a vile stench over the past couple days, all stemming from the short-lived bloom of a corpse flower.

When it blooms, this stinky flower releases chemicals that smell like rotting flesh to attact pollinators, such as carrion ...

When a corpse flower blooms, the pinky-purple spathe unfolds from an enormous yellow spadix that can grow to 3.7 meters (12 ...

Schaller and collaborators then identified what kicks off the corpse flower’s thermogenesis, as well as the specific chemical ...

Blooms from this abundant plant occur about every 50 years. Here's why it causes a rat flood and, ultimately, famine in certain regions of the world.

She envisioned this garden as a peaceful retreat where she could calm her mind and restore balance when life felt ...

What also intrigues scientists is the corpse flower's propensity for warming itself up just before blooming through a process known as thermogenesis, an uncommon trait in plants that is not well ...

I have planted and grown these bulbs for many years in my own garden, and come April and May, when the purple and white ...

A heatmap of titus arum, or the corpse flower, shows that the plant's central towering spike known as the appendix heats up ...