Visitors to Australia’s Geelong Botanic Gardens got a big whiff of a vile stench over the past couple days, all stemming from the short-lived bloom of a corpse flower.

When it blooms, this stinky flower releases chemicals that smell like rotting flesh to attact pollinators, such as carrion ...

The Hoya carnosa, affectionately known as the wax plant or porcelain flower, is so delicate it looks like it’s made of ...

In the Australian city Geelong, just south of Melbourne, thousands are lining up for the rare chance to see – and smell – an unusual plant.

A new study on titan arum -- commonly known as the corpse flower for its smell like rotting flesh -- uncovers fundamental genetic pathways and biological mechanisms that produce heat and odorous ...

What also intrigues scientists is the corpse flower's propensity for warming itself up just before blooming through a process known as thermogenesis, an uncommon trait in plants that is not well ...

A state-of-the-art scanner finally answered the century-old question about the flower, adding a new layer of meaning to it.

A heatmap of titus arum, or the corpse flower, shows that the plant's central towering spike known as the appendix heats up ...

The U.S. Army has awarded a $435 million contract to build a TNT production plant in western Kentucky. Officials said Friday ...