Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

San Francisco's notorious corpse flower 'Chanel' is about to bloom at the Conservatory, bringing crowds eager to smell its ...

Exact timing of the bloom is unclear, but campus officials predict it will occur this week – Cal Poly will host a rare corpse ...

Tall, pointed, and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest.

Amorphophallus titanum is native to rainforests on an island in Indonesia and the flower's smell is secreted in order to attract flies and carrion beetles for pollination.

The Amorphophallus titanium, better known as the corpse flower, is a rare, 8-foot-tall flower that blooms for just a few days every few years. The U.S. Botanic Garden has several, and it's ...

Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) in bloom at the United States Botanic Garden Conservatory, Nov. 20, 2005. ... In a scenario without carrion beetles to pollinate, ...

Amorphophallus titanum has the largest known unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom. ... They are fully ripe about six months after pollination. However, don’t eat them.

Garden officials expect the plant, technically an Amorphophallus titanum, to bloom sometime between May 30 and June 2. Corpse flowers bloom with the odor of rotting flesh as a way of attracting ...

Amorphophallus konjac, ... “It cannot pollinate itself,” said John Leichter, IU’s greenhouse supervisor. “I’m amazed there weren’t a bunch of cockroaches in it this morning, ...

A huge plant known as the corpse flower in recognition of its foul smell bloomed at the U.S. Botanic Garden on Sunday night, and another similar specimen may bloom imminently, the garden said.