Chico >> For two days, the corpse flower at Chico State University reigned as stink king. Thousands of visitors lined up to smell the flower that reeks like rotting flesh, with a single, ...

Australian collections of the endangered and notoriously unpredictable flowers have popped off in recent years, as ‘personas’ like Putricia, Stinkerella and Smellanie prove a hit with nosy spectators ...

Cal Poly’s corpse flower plant finally bloomed. So what did it smell like? Descriptions of the bloom’s unique odor, said to resemble that of a rotting carcass, ranged from “dead animal” to “hot ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

The alien-like blooms and putrid stench of Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the corpse flower, draw big crowds and media coverage to botanical gardens each year. In 2015, for instance, more ...