Does the stench from a corpse flower live up to its namesake? A couple of Twin Cities morticians stood in line at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory to find out. Angela Woosley and Angelica Napoli ...

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A stinky flower in Colorado bloomed this past weekend for the first time in its life. After seven years of care at the College of Agricultural Sciences’ Conservatory at Colorado ...

DOVER, Massachusetts (WBZ) — An extremely rare and foul-smelling flower has reached its peak bloom in Dover, Massachusetts. The amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, only blooms once every 10 ...

The Como Park Zoo and Conservatory announced Friday morning that its suddenly famous corpse flower “has finished blooming, and the smell has faded.” The odoriferous plant, nicknamed Horace by ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Crowds lined up in San Francisco on Wednesday to see — and smell — the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years. An ...

A rare Indonesian plant called a corpse flower began to bloom Tuesday afternoon at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences, and by Wednesday morning, more than a hundred Bay Area residents had lined up to ...