Thousands in Australia line up to see stinking ‘corpse flower’ Stop and smell the roses ... Researchers at the University of California San Diego are hoping to drastically shorten the time between a ...

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Researchers have revealed the genetic and chemical reasons behind the titan arum’s unique warming mechanism and putrid scent.

A rare flower that stinks like rotting flesh has bloomed, with hundreds turning out to get a whiff of its foul stench. The corpse flower, also named the titan arum, blooms about once a decade and ...

This GIF shows a heatmap of the corpse flower when it blooms, with the central appendix heating up to about 20 degrees Fahrenheit above ambient temperature. Credit: Eric Schaller The plant can go ...

FILE: Visitors snap photos of the Corpse Flower in it's rare bloom at the Huntington Library on September 13, 2023 in San Marino, California. After showing initial signs of a bloom early last week ...

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Dartmouth scientists sniff out the genes — and identify a new chemical compound — that drive titan arum's pungent odor. The unusual odor of the titan arum, commonly called the corpse flower because ...

In the Australian city Geelong, just south of Melbourne, thousands are lining up for the rare chance to see – and smell – an unusual plant. “It’s rank,” one visitor told CNN affiliate ...

The corpse flower lives up to its nickname. Native to Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia, the giant tropical plant can live for decades and grow over 12 feet tall, but its most famous for the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Geelong’s corpse flower has now bloomed, revealing its putrid “dead possum” stench. The corpse plant, Amorphophallus titanum ...