The corpse flower at the Australian National Botanic Gardens is at least 15 years old but had never flowered before now.

The bloom lasts for a day, with the spathe (the purple, petal-like structure surrounding the spadix) taking hours to fully unfurl. Insects attracted to the odor are ones that lay their eggs in ...

The flowers that seldom appear indoors are like a peace lily with a cone-shaped structure (spadix) surrounded by a cupped white sheath (spathe). The flowers may be followed by an edible fruit that ...

The corpse flower, native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, gets its name from the literal translation of the Indonesian phrase Bunga bangkai. Its species name, Amorphophallus titanum, meanwhile, ...

She’s misted by steam, green spadix erect, anointed with fragrance ... often mate themselves within a corpse flower’s spathe. The paintbrushes withdraw. A smattering of applause.

It’s a smaller flower, with speckled yellow-green stalks and a deep crimson-purple spathe and spadix. Its bloom is also short-lived; by the end of the week, Leichter said, its leaves will begin ...

I ran to the Botanic Gardens late last night – and accidentally became involved with the stinky, intimate art of Putricia’s ...

An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is blooming in Australia - and captivating the internet ...

The plant looks to attract carrion-eating beetles and flesh flies which pollinate the flowers within the spathe. The smell can be detected by these insects more than a kilometre away. The deep red ...

An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink ... a vibrant maroon or crimson skirt, known as a spathe, around her spadix which is the large spike in the middle of the ...