Description: The word "spectacular" is often overused in our culture these days but, if anything, this description may be understated in describing the flowering of the giant titan arum plant. The ...

"Little Miss Stinky," a corpse flower or titan arum, blooms at the University of California, Riverside's Botanic Gardens. Visitors at the University of California, Riverside’s Botanic Gardens were ...

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 ...

The corpse flower lives up to its nickname. Native to Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia, the giant tropical plant can live for decades and grow over 12 feet tall, but its most famous for the deathlike ...

A giant Titan Arum, nicknamed the "corpse flower" because of its stench of rotting flesh, has flowered at Paignton Zoo in Devon. The flower is one of the biggest in the world and can grow up to 3 ...

One of the great jewels of the plant kingdom, the Titan Arum, or Amorphophallus titanum, is about to flower for the third time in the Lyman Conservatory at Smith College. Our Titan first bloomed in ...

Forget roses. Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens wants you to stop and smell the Titan Arum, a large phallic-shaped plant that blooms on rare occasions, and, when it does, emits a scent that has ...

The University of Warsaw Botanical Garden is currently hosting a rare event: the blooming of a titan arum, also known as the "corpse flower." This bloom, reaching over 180cm, began on August 5th and ...

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 ...

Tony Holland gawked at the sprawling flower, which jutted more than 6 feet above him. Its distinct, rancid odor cut through the air, like rotting flesh. It was Holland’s dream come true. “Just to be ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A 6-foot-tall titan arum plant that reeks of rotting flesh when it flowers is blooming at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Often called the "corpse flower," the enormous ...