Thousands lined up at UNC Charlotte’s greenhouse to witness Cadavera, a rare corpse flower, whose towering bloom reeked of rotting flesh.

Sometime next year, you may notice a new, foul smell at the Norfolk Botanical Garden. It’s a new corpse flower, also known as ...

SEATTLE — Amazon's first-ever corpse flower, given the moniker "Morticia," has bloomed a second time. The Amorphophallus titanum, which lives in the Amazon Spheres, only blooms an average of every 5 ...

SEATTLE — It is one of the few horticultural experiences that could be more for your nose than your eyes, and it’s on display now at the Amazon Spheres in Seattle. Morticia, the corpse flower, is ...

The Norfolk Botanical Garden is getting a corpse flower. First announced a few weeks ago on social media, the enormous, flowering plant will be a part of the garden’s upcoming Garden of Tomorrow ...

(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 ...

Plant biologists have studied corpse flowers for years, but as atmospheric chemists we were curious about something specific: the mixes of chemicals that create that smell and how they change during ...