The stench of a rare corpse flower make us retch. But you’re not the target – the plant wants to lure carrion beetles and ...
“It smells like dead possum,” a child said more bluntly. It’s the so-called “corpse flower,” or Amorphophallus Titanum (often ...
The plant only flowers once every 10 years, and is expected to bloom for just 48 hours at the Geelong Botanic Gardens.
The so-called "corpse flower", known more formally as the titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum, typically blooms for only a couple of days and can take years—sometimes over a decade—to bloom ...
The Titan Arum at Cambridge University Botanic Garden has attracted hundreds of visitors since threatening to bloom a week ago. Known as the "corpse flower", the specimen last bloomed in 2004 ...
Visitors to Kew Gardens are still able to catch a glimpse - and whiff - of its titan arum plant, otherwise known as the corpse flower, after it burst into bloom on Tuesday. The flower, which is ...
Amorphophallus Titanum, often shortened to Titan Arum, is popular as the 'corpse flower' in the region for the putrid stench that comes out of it when it blooms to attract beetles and flies ...