Understand how to survive encounters with the corpse flower.

(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 ...

The corpse plant's bloom appears huge, but its flowers are actually tiny and found in rows inside its floral chamber. John Eisele/Colorado State University Sometimes, doing research stinks. Quite ...

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A rare sight — a flower that blooms once every seven to 10 years and only stays bloomed for two days, emitting a foul odor — the San Diego Botanic Garden’s corpse flower has ...

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 ...

The Amorphophallus titanum, known as the corpse flower because of its smell’s uncanny similarity to the stench of rotting flesh, began to bloom at about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Hundreds of people flocked to ...

A corpse plant has bloomed in the Triangle. The Juniper Level Botanic Gardens announced Thursday the rare flower has begun blooming at their Plant Delights Nursery on Sauls Road in Raleigh. Other WRAL ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A very rare species of plant in Raleigh is about to do something special. We're talking about the flowering of the rare Titan Arum Corpse Flower at Juniper Level Botanic Garden ...

Crowds were continuing to gather Friday at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, where another "Corpse Flower" is nearing an odiferous bloom. The bloom, which typically lasts ...