Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans flock to see them—and, perhaps more importantly, to smell them.

8-foot-tall flower that blooms for just a few days every few years. The U.S. Botanic Garden has several. One just bloomed, and another is expected to do so soon. The U.S. Botanic Garden stayed ...

A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the world's most threatened plants from extinction. Researchers analysed a ...

The United States Botanic Garden previously announced that the corpse flowers would bloom between July 19 to July 22. This post has been updated as of today. Get ready for a real stinker: the United ...

Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a ...

Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping ...