Colorado State University’s greenhouse is drawing visitors like flies to honey, or, perhaps, flies to something less pleasant. CSU’s corpse flower, Cosmo, brought to the school in 2016 as a sapling ...

Does the stench from a corpse flower live up to its namesake? A couple of Twin Cities morticians stood in line at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory to find out. Angela Woosley and Angelica Napoli ...

If you smell a rotting corpse, it could be one of two things: an actual rotting corpse, or—if you’re lucky—just a giant smelly flower called titan arum. Now, scientists have identified the molecular ...

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DOVER, Massachusetts (WBZ) — An extremely rare and foul-smelling flower has reached its peak bloom in Dover, Massachusetts. The amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, only blooms once every 10 ...

A rare Indonesian plant called a corpse flower began to bloom Tuesday afternoon at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences, and by Wednesday morning, more than a hundred Bay Area residents had lined up to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Crowds lined up in San Francisco on Wednesday to see — and smell — the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years. An ...