Roses are red, violets are blue ... and then there's Titan arum. Liver-colored, reeking of rancid animal flesh and obscenely phallic, Titan arum - affectionately called the corpse flower - is hardly ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Something rare and magnificent is taking place at LA’s Huntington ...

It takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are still unravelling the baffling lifecycle of the titan arum. I'm in a row of people shuffling ...

One of the world’s biggest and smelliest flowers has finally blossomed at a zoo - treating visitors to the stench of rotting meat. The Titan Arum was planted at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in ...

The world’s largest and stinkiest flower has bloomed again at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. The aptly named ‘corpse flower’ occurs naturally in Indonesia and uses its foul scent to attract ...

A flowering plant infamous for its eye-watering odour and rather cheeky scientific name which began showing signs of a rare bloom on Wednesday has now closed up. In a picture posted by the Cairns ...

For botanists, it doesn't get more exciting than this - after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom. For curious crowds who gathered, they perhaps realised that a ...

Visitors at the University of California, Riverside’s Botanic Gardens were witness to a rare and smelly sight last weekend. A titan arum — also known as a corpse plant or corpse flower — dubbed ...

Many flowers compete with one another to attract butterflies, birds and bees for pollination, but at least one species of flowering plants has enhanced its ability to attract insects in unique ways.