A rare flower captivated visitors at this stunning garden in New York City, offering a fleeting glimpse of its unique beauty ... and putrid smell.

Amorphophallus gigas translates to “giant shapeless phallus,” a fact that didn't get enough attention in the garden’s signage, in my opinion. At the base beneath the spathe were the actual, tiny ...

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Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest plants: a corpse flower called Amorphophallus gigas (pictured above), ...

“That was disgusting.” The rare Amorphophallus gigas — a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower — has bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...

“That was disgusting.” The rare Amorphophallus gigas — a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower — has bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...