In the plant world, beauty isn't always gentle or sweet-smelling. Sometimes, it is colossal, overpowering, and impossible to ignore. Some flowers grow to jaw-dropping sizes, unleash scents strong ...

This remarkable flower is as notorious for its fragrance as it is for its size. Commonly, known as the ‘corpse flower’, it produces an odour resembling that of rotting flesh when in bloom. This stench ...

Something rotten is preparing to bloom in the Bronx: one of the world's largest flowers that smells like death. The corpse flower at the New York Botanical Garden, with two other examples of ...