For a plant that emits an overpowering stench of rotting carcass, you’d think the corpse flower would have a PR problem. But it’s quite the opposite: Anytime a corpse flower opens up at a botanical ...

Bacteria is one of the main causes of premature bouquet deaths. Its presence in vase water clogs stems and speeds up decay. Dehydration, either from a lack of water or a stem’s inability to absorb it, ...

PORT ORCHARD — Marilyn Davis smelled a rat. The co-owner of The Brothers Greenhouses overturned potted plant after potted plant last week to find the source of a rotten odor she thought must be a ...

If you smell a rotting corpse, it could be one of two things: an actual rotting corpse, or—if you’re lucky—just a giant smelly flower called titan arum. Now, scientists have identified the molecular ...

This stunning but stinky bloom of a corpse flower unfurled on 18 June at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, but it will only be around briefly – they tend to last for just 24 to 36 hours.

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (AP) — One person entered the lush, green Victorian-era greenhouse and smelled rotting eggs. Another said the odor evoked the memory of dissecting a dead bird. A third compared it ...