The rare bloom at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens smells like rotting meat — and it only lasts a few days. CLEVELAND — The smell ...

A plant at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens called Titan Arum —which gives off a rotting meat smell — is blooming in a brief, ...

Archaeologists have revitalized a Roman flower garden in Pompeii that survived an earthquake in 62 A.D. before being buried ...

A rare corpse flower will bloom at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park for the first time in two ...

The flower blooms when the spike in the centre, known as the spadix, experiences a growth spurt which prompts the spathe, or the skirt around the spadix, to open.

It can grow up to 3 metres (10 feet) tall and weigh up to 150kg, it also contains hundreds of flowers in the base of its spadix. Titan arum is an endangered plant in the wild due to deforestation ...

The plant contains several hundred flowers in the base of its spadix. It is endangered in the wild due to deforestation and land degradation.

Appropriately dubbed the “corpse flower,” the titan arum is actually a cluster of tiny flowers within a huge central stalk called the spadix, which can grow up to 12 feet (3.7 meters ...

The stench of death The corpse flower is native to the dense rainforests of Sumatra in Indonesia. Many plants make their flowers attractive to bees, which like sweeter smells. However, a large variety ...

This arum has opted instead to attract flesh flies and carrion beetles, which polish off dead animals. The corpse flower’s reddish-purple structure and stench of death attract these insects to ...

But a large variety of insects can pollinate flowers. This arum has opted instead to attract flesh flies and carrion beetles, which polish off dead animals.