It takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are still unravelling the baffling lifecycle of the titan arum. I'm in a row of people shuffling ...

A flowering plant infamous for its eye-watering odour and rather cheeky scientific name which began showing signs of a rare bloom on Wednesday has now closed up. In a picture posted by the Cairns ...

Pee-yew! Rare, endangered, super-stinky corpse flower is about to bloom at this Treasure Coast botanical garden. Watch via live stream and Instagram.

The mighty plant is nicknamed the 'corpse flower' because its smell has been compared to rotting meat or dog poo. Find out ...

A Titan Arum in Bloom Image Credit: Ingrid Taylar via Flickr The U.S. Botanic Garden is expecting to have a very smelly week this week. Their Titan Arum, a flowering plant that rarely blooms, is set ...

Plant native to Sumatra boasts huge fly-attracting flower that can be sustained for only a few days It looks like a giant erect penis, stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a ...

It's hold-your-nose time at Paington Zoo Environmental Park, where gardeners have tended the endangered specimen since 2003 Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our ...

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The world’s largest and stinkiest flower has bloomed again at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. The aptly named ‘corpse flower’ occurs naturally in Indonesia and uses its foul scent to attract ...

The plant has evolved to attract pollinators that enjoy feeding on and reproducing on flesh. Plus, the plant is enormous, so if the scent isn't enough to draw you in, maybe the size will. It can grow ...