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For weeks, Benjamin Snyder scrutinized the prized Amorphophallus titanium — a rare tropical plant better known by its macabre ...

Cosmo, Colorado State University’s stinky and rare corpse flower, bloomed for the first time Saturday night. Hundreds of people are lined up Sunday, completely circling the block on the CSU campus ...

If you’ve ever wanted to see – and smell – one of the weirdest wonders in the natural world, now’s your chance. The famous Corpse Flower, officially known as Amorphophallus titanum, is blooming right ...

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 nights. But those ...

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After the corpse flower at the New York Botanical Garden bloomed for the first time in 1937 and 1939, New Yorkers had to wait 80 years to smell its stench once again. The most recent bloom occurred in ...

We can so easily think of nicknames for various things in our lives, from household objects — everyone's coffeepot is named Perky, right? — to those unexciting but necessary tasks we must address.

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 ...