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 ...

Something at Temple University’s Ambler campus smelled like death this week, and hundreds of people showed up for it anyway, ...

This video is no longer available. It’s big, it’s beautiful and it’s stinky. It’s also in bloom in D.C., though not for long. The scientific name for the giant plant is Amorphophallus titanum. But ...

A rare and stinky and corpse flower is blooming at Temple Ambler! According to Temple University officials, corpse flower ...

The plant, which is said to smell a bit like rotting flesh, only flowers for a few days and it can be years before it returns.

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For weeks, Benjamin Snyder scrutinized the prized Amorphophallus titanium — a rare tropical plant better known by its macabre ...

SOUTH HADLEY — It was not the sweet smell of flowers that greeted Thomas Clark on Tuesday morning, but the pungent smell of sulfur, sweat and rotting flesh. The director and curator of the Mount ...

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