Story continues below The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous “corpse flower,” is beginning to bloom at the Aquatic House in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. “I think this is an equally ...

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...

Instead, crowds saw a 5-foot plant that didn’t smell quite as putrid as they had hoped. The corpse flower, predicted to bloom last week, finally unfurled on Sunday evening, after leaving many ...

People view an endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink, which is about to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

The Amorphophallus gigas—a cousin to Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as a corpse flower—is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The specimen in Brooklyn, nicknamed “Smelliot ...

The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous “corpse flower,” is beginning to bloom at the Aquatic House in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. “I think this is an equally impressive ...