Visitors will have a chance Wednesday to experience the pungent smell of the corpse flower that is blooming at St. Paul's Como Park Zoo and Conservatory. The flower, affectionately named "Frederick," ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden. In fact, ...

The corpse flower, which appears only once every few years, smells like a rotting corpse, and is pollinated by flies, is in bloom for the very first time at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas.

Usually, people try to avoid anything considered "rotting." But a rare flower on display in Brooklyn is expected to attract large crowds this weekend. The infamous flower known for its rotting, putrid ...

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