The flower has been said to smell like rotting flesh, wet socks or hot cat food, and only stinks for 24 hours after blooming.

The bloom has attracted up to 20,000 admirers who filed past, hoping to experience the smell for themselves, with some attendees describing it as "like death," "like poop," and "like sewage water." ...

Out of the 12 best botanical gardens in the U.S., half of them are within 600 miles of Cincinnati. Here are four of them ...

For a week, she has graced a stately and gothic display in front of a purple curtain and wreathed in mist from a humidifier at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. Her rise to fame since has been rapid, ...

Staff and visitors at Australia's Royal Botanic Garden Sydney are hoping to see — and smell — a rare event that could come at any moment: the blooming of a giant amorphophallus titanum, also known as ...

Commonly known as the Corpse Flower - it smells like rotting flesh - just 1000 specimens are still in the wild in the rainforests of Sumatra.

They were both painted in 1908 on the English-born artist’s first visit to Australia, as she accompanied her husband and ...

A rare and revolting spectacle has drawn tens of thousands to Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, where a foul-smelling flower known as “Putricia” has finally bloomed. The corpse flower ...

The corpse flower has finally bloomed at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, treating visitors to its repugnant smell for the first time in 15 years. The towering green plant – officially called the ...

Founded in the mid-1800s, the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne encompass 94 acres of greenery. Some of the gardens' highlights include region-specific plant collections, the Rare and Threatened ...