It's one of the world's largest flowers, it stinks of rotting meat or rancid cheese and looks very much like a giant penis. The Amorphophallus Titanum — literally "the giant strangely shaped penis" — ...

A rare and unusual flower came into bloom at San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) on Oct. 31 —a perfect time for the aptly-named corpse flower to show its stuff. The corpse flower, native to the Indonesian ...

Anyone who missed the chance to see — and smell — Longwood Gardens’ corpse flower last summer will get another shot in the next week to experience this rare event locally. The Temple University Ambler ...

Women have been picking these rare phallic-looking plants to take fun selfies with in such numbers that it risks dying out, according to Cambodian officials. Nepenthes holdenii, a carnivorous tropical ...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - A massive, suggestively shaped flower more than two metres high is blooming in Niagara Falls, Ont. _ the first time it has flowered in Canada. Experts at the Niagara Parks Floral ...

A rare “corpse” flower is blooming in Pittsburgh, and it’s really stinking up the joint. At the Phipps Conservatory, the exotic flower named for its rotting-flesh aroma, visitors can see the strange ...

To preserve corpse flowers and other rare plants, botanic gardens are borrowing studbooks, an approach used by zoos and horse breeders. By Samantha Drake To save endangered plant species, ...

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And a new species of Amorphophallus—the genus that includes the "corpse flower"—still smells like rotting meat and feces. Lynn Bohs, a biology professor ...

Tropical fruits, phallic flowers, mushrooms and even blinged-out citruses are taking over wedding florals, replacing traditional roses and other more demure blooms. Wedding vendors and event planners ...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – A massive, suggestively shaped flower more than two metres high is blooming in Niagara Falls, Ont. _ the first time it has flowered in Canada. Experts at the Niagara Parks Floral ...