An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...
Dubbed the "corpse flower," the plant's scientific name is amorphophallus titanum but she's Putricia -- a portmanteau of ...
The corpse flower, native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, gets its name from the literal translation of the Indonesian ...
The corpse flower exudes a fragrance evoking gym socks and rotting garbage, in the 24 hours that it blooms.
The monumental blooming marks the first time an Amorphophallus gigas — a plant native to Sumatra and lovingly nicknamed the ...