With its stench of rotting flesh and giant size, Cal Poly’s corpse flower attracts visitors from across SLO County.

Visitors will have the chance Wednesday to experience the pungent smell of the corpse flower that is blooming at Como Park ...

The life of a corpse flower starts with planting a seed which will grow and develop a corm. After germination, the corm will sprout a single leaf shoot that's around 6 inches tall.

The endangered corpse flower has gained a new family after a pair of the rare plants flowered at the same time earlier this year. According to The Mainichi, this couple produces the world’s ...

Usually, it is warm-climate plants — including the corpse flower — that produce these seeds, but there are exceptions, including oak. According to research out of Royal Botanic Gardens, ...

Usually, it is warm-climate plants—including the corpse flower—that produce these seeds, but there are exceptions, including oak. According to research out of Royal Botanic Gardens, ...

Usually, it is warm-climate plants—including the corpse flower—that produce these seeds, but there are exceptions, including oak. According to research out of Royal Botanic Gardens, ...

To Save the Corpse Flower, ... Tropical plants native to hot and humid climates tend to have recalcitrant seeds. Corpse flowers can reproduce both asexually and sexually.

Each corpse flower can produce over 400 fruits, each containing two seeds according to the Chicago Botanic Garden. These fruits ripen from a gold color to orange then a rich crimson.

According to the Garden, this corpse flower’s seeds were first planted in 2018, and its first bloom began opening the night of July 21.