T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The corpse plant's bloom appears huge, but its flowers are actually tiny and found in rows inside its floral chamber. John ...

Silver sage, Salvia argentea, is one of over 900 species of salvias. Unlike most salvias that are grown for their flowers, silver sage is grown for its large, fuzzy, silver leaves. It looks like a ...

San Diego Botanic Garden announced Wednesday that a “voodoo lily” — a smaller relative of the giant corpse plant — is blooming now and can be seen for the next day or two. The Amorphophallus konjac, ...

Attention, D.C. metro area: run, don't walk, to the U.S. Botanic Gardens, where our nation's "corpse flower" is in full bloom. This is not a drill or a metaphor. As of Sunday afternoon, you have 24-48 ...

Aussies are queuing around the block just to get a glimpse of an extremely rare flower which has just bloomed, but there's a twist - it smells like rotting flesh. The giant, foul-smelling plant, the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite literally. Corpse plants are rare, and seeing one bloom is even rarer. They open once every seven to 10 years, and the blooms last just two ...