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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ...

SYDNEY -- A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time in more than a decade, emitting an odour likened to rotting flesh and delighting thousands who queued ...

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 ...