Corpse Flower, also known as titan arum, is the smelliest plant on Earth that reeks of rotting flesh and death when in bloom.

Corpse plants definitely earn their nickname. Their pungent odors attract not only the carrion insects – beetles and flies normally drawn to decomposing meat – that pollinate the plants, but also ...

One of the world’s biggest and smelliest flowers has finally blossomed at a zoo - treating visitors to the stench of rotting meat. The Titan Arum was planted at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in ...

It takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are still unravelling the baffling lifecycle of the titan arum. I'm in a row of people shuffling ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Something rare and magnificent is taking place at LA’s Huntington ...

With all due respect to the Cal State Fullerton soccer team, there likely isn’t a smellier Titan on campus than this one: the titan arum. This rare tropical flower in the biology greenhouses bloomed ...

For botanists, it doesn't get more exciting than this - after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom. For curious crowds who gathered, they perhaps realised that a ...

Many flowers compete with one another to attract butterflies, birds and bees for pollination, but at least one species of flowering plants has enhanced its ability to attract insects in unique ways.

Send congratulations to the Ohio State University Biological Sciences Greenhouse in Columbus. Horticulturists there are witnessing a rare blooming of Amorphophallus titanum, or titan arum, a plant so ...