Sprindis added that the flower, much like the “corpse flower” (aka Amorphophallus titanum), will also “smell like rotting flesh. The flower is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra and ...

An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a putrid aroma of rotten flesh throughout the ...

Also known as the "corpse flower" because it smells like rotting flesh, the giant plant began blooming on Monday. The bloom only lives for 72 hours. It's expected to close again on Wednesday.

This attracts carrion flies. As a fly searches deeper into the flower, seeking dead flesh upon which to lay its eggs, the flower attaches a gloopy drop of pollen to the fly's back, which ...