University of Tennessee biologists await corpse flower bloom
July 22, 2021 GMTKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The public is invited to come see, and smell, the rare blooming of a corpse flower at the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Hesler Biology Building.
Endangered corpse flower blooms in Warsaw, drawing crowds
June 14, 2021 GMTWARSAW, Poland (AP) — The endangered Sumatran Titan arum, a giant foul-smelling blossom also known as the corpse flower, went into a rare, short bloom at a botanical garden in Warsaw, drawing crowds who waited for hours to see it.
Hundreds in California line up for blooming ‘corpse flower’
May 19, 2021 GMTALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city flocked to an abandoned gas station to get a whiff of a corpse flower — so-called because of the stench it emits when it blooms — after its owner decided to share the rare plant with his neighbors.
‘Corpse flower’ that smells like dirty diapers to bloom
October 26, 2018 GMTHANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Just in time for Halloween, a rare "corpse flower" that gets its nickname from its putrid smell is expected to bloom next week at Dartmouth College's greenhouse...
Stinky ‘corpse flower’ in full bloom in California
August 18, 2018 GMTSAN MARINO, Calif. (AP) — Visitors were flocking to the Huntington Library in Southern California on Friday to get a whiff of a so-called corpse flower, known for the rotten stench it releases when it blooms...
Stinky ‘corpse flower’ draws flies -- and visitors -- to Madison’s Olbrich Botanical Gardens
June 15, 2018 GMTInstead of being met by rose- and desert-scented orchids that line the entrance to the Bolz conservatory, visitors to Olbrich Botanical Garden s’ glass pyramid conservatory Thursday afternoon kept their noses tightly plugged against a rare stench that overpowered the more fragrant plants nearby.