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Corpse plants definitely earn their nickname. Their pungent odors attract not only the carrion insects—beetles and flies ...
The San Diego Botanic Garden eagerly welcomed the pungent stench of a corpse flower, which bloomed for its first time last ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — One of the world’s rarest, foul-smelling plants can be found in San Diego County and is expected to bloom over the coming week. A corpse flower currently on display in the ...
A rare corpse flower is about to bloom in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Dover is delighted to host the rare amorphophallus titanum for its long, long-awaited bloom.
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 ...
With a stench reminiscent of rotting flesh and a bloom that’s over 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide, the corpse flower is seemingly straight out of Jurassic Park. It drew visitors from across San Luis ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Update: The flower is now in bloom. The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers posted their update on Tuesday at around 4:30 p.m. Amorphophallus titanum. That's probably not something ...
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The Day in 10 Pictures

From the dense fog in Sydney to a 'corpse flower' - here are the images of the day chosen by the Sky News picture editors. Smoke from the California wildfires which scorch the Los Padres National ...
TUCSON, Ariz. -- A rare and truly terrible smell is about to fill the air at the Botanical Gardens in Tucson. The plant known as the corpse flower is expected to bloom some time Friday. The event, ...
BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- People can smell that something big is about to bloom in Berkeley. A plant named Trudy that's a native to Sumatra in Indonesia is about to bloom. Although it's not ...
MADISON (WKOW) -- One of the corpse flowers at Olbrich Botanical Gardens is now blooming. The rare bloom of the giant flower only lasts for 24 to 48 hours. It started blooming around 3:15 p.m. on ...