Corpse Flower

One of the Missouri Botanical Garden’s corpse flowers named Octavia is expected to bloom this week. Its yet-unnamed clone will likely bloom next week.

Luna is a 6-year-old corpse flower whose parents were named Alice and Stinky.

A corpse flower on display at the Missouri Botanical Garden likely will not perform one of its stunning and foul-smelling blooms.The corpse flower, one of…

You still have a few hours left to smell the corpse flower.The Titan Arum, an Aroid plant from Sumatra, is currently in bloom at the Missouri Botanical…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 21, 2013: The plant is a strange mixture of contradictions: Its flower takes only a few weeks to…

A second Amorphophallus titanum has bloomed at the Missouri Botanical Garden. It’s known as the titan arum – the flower can reach over six feet tall – or…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 16 2011 - Archie, the blossom of a corpse flower, is dying in the greenhouse of the University of…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 16, 2011 - Archie, the blossom of a corpse flower, is dying in the greenhouse of the University…