People have described the smell of a corpse flower bloom as rotting flesh. A KQED reporter found that description to be spot ...

Grogan told 22News that it isn’t easy to take care of these flowers due to their irregular life cycle. The flower will begin to smell like a corpse as early as next week.

Across the globe, certain flowers exhibit the rare phenomenon of blooming only once in their lifetime or infrequently. These ...

Moving forward, Schaller hopes to learn what initiates a corpse flower’s bloom cycle, as well as if multiple plants synchronize their schedules to increase the chances of pollination.

For most years of its life, the world's largest flower — isn't. Over a life cycle of 30 to 40 years, the titan arum will grow into a large leaf resembling a tree which can grow to 15 feet tall.

The rare titan arum — fittingly dubbed a corpse flower — is on display and in bloom at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe.

One of the Missouri Botanical Garden’s corpse flowers named Octavia is expected to bloom this week. Its yet-unnamed clone will likely bloom next week.

An endangered corpse flower is seen on display at the San Antonio Zoo in San Antonio, TX, on July 9, 2022. The corpse flower, or titan arum, is expected to bloom in about 10 days; which will ...

Odora is the 26th corpse flower at The Huntington since 1999. She's ready to bloom, a display that draws crowds, not despite but because of its smell.

The corpse flower does not have an annual blooming cycle, so there’s no telling the next time it will happen, she said.

Grogan told 22News that it isn’t easy to take care of these flowers due to their irregular life cycle. The flower will begin to smell like a corpse as early as next week.