Many visitors queued up to admire the 1.6 metre high flower, which smelt like a corpse. The bloom, the first in 15 years at ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. In fact, ...

This is the titan arum. It’s a plant that makes news whenever it flowers in a botanic garden around the world. It’s sometimes called a lily, but it’s an arum, a genus not closely related to true ...

Titan arum, known as the corpse flower, in bloom at San Jose State University on July 27, 2022. Photo by Julia Brown. I could smell it before I saw it. After being led up a secured elevator and ...