Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the ...

The Missouri Botanical Garden announced one of its rare corpse flowers will soon bloom for the first time in its 7-year life.

A native of the Sumatran rainforest, the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanium) is known in Indonesia as the ‘corpse flower’, ...

He sent some of the plant’s seeds and tubers back to Europe, and titan arum has been spreading to botanic gardens, arboreta and research institutions around the world ever since. Wild ...

A flower is produced when the titan arum has stored enough energy in its ... and gardeners used different fertilising regimes on each plant, as well as different management plans.

Visitors flocked to another flowering titan arum, in Brooklyn (AP) She said Canberra, Sydney and Geelong each had different climates. Gardeners used different fertilising regimes on each plant ...

An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...

The titan arum plant, housed in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney, blooms only once every few years for just 24 hours. Affectionately dubbed Putricia, it will release a smell described as "wet ...

“This cycle continues until the plant eventually dies.” He said it was unknown how long a titan arum plant lived for, but it was possible they could live for decades. The corpse flower will be ...

Although putrescine is a known compound, this is the first time it’s been identified in the titan arum, where it plays a key role in creating the plant’s distinctive stench. Appropriately ...