While all flowers are beautiful, some flowers are unique and eye-catching. Flower bulbs that are intricate and eye-catching ...

It’s amorphophallus titanum, named after the putrid stench it releases when it blooms to attract pollinators like beetles and ...

I have planted and grown these bulbs for many years in my own garden, and come April and May, when the purple and white ...

From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...

The stench of a rare corpse flower make us retch. But you’re not the target – the plant wants to lure carrion beetles and ...

You know it’s May when that first heady scent of lilac wafts through the air. But it’s not May. It’s November. And across the ...

When a corpse flower blooms, the pinky-purple spathe unfolds from an enormous yellow spadix that can grow to 3.7 meters (12 ...

The unusual odor of the titan arum, commonly called the corpse flower because its scent is reminiscent of ... an uncommon trait in plants that is not well understood. Now, a Dartmouth-led study looks ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...

Some parasites, such as Rafflesia and Thurber’s stemsucker, grow within the plant and only emerge to flower, while others attach their haustoria externally. All parasitic plants have evolved from ...

In the Australian city Geelong, just south of Melbourne, thousands are lining up for the rare chance to see – and smell – an unusual ... garden also offers a livestream of the corpse flower ...