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Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping at ...
When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about ...
Thousands of visitors are clamoring to catch a glimpse—or a nausea-inducing whiff—of a corpse flower at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC during its rare and fleeting bloom on Tuesday and ...
Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — One of the world’s rarest, foul-smelling plants can be found in San Diego County and is expected to bloom over the coming week. A corpse flower currently on display in the ...
The corpse flower, which appears only once every few years, smells like a rotting corpse, and is pollinated by flies, is in bloom for the very first time at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas.
If you’ve ever wanted to see – and smell – one of the weirdest wonders in the natural world, now’s your chance. The famous Corpse Flower, officially known as Amorphophallus titanum, is blooming right ...
With a stench reminiscent of rotting flesh and a bloom that’s over 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide, the corpse flower is seemingly straight out of Jurassic Park. It drew visitors from across San Luis ...
Visitors will have a chance Wednesday to experience the pungent smell of the corpse flower that is blooming at St. Paul's Como Park Zoo and Conservatory. The flower, affectionately named "Frederick," ...
Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans flock to see them—and, perhaps more importantly, to smell them. These large, ...