It was the first bloom for the corpse flower named Mirage, which was donated to the California Academy of Sciences in 2017. It’s been housed in the museum’s rainforest exhibit since 2020.

They are a cousin of the giant corpse flower, a plant notorious for its terrible odor. According to a Temple University article, the konjac is “smaller, but no less stinky,” than its big cousin.

Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest. But to fans of ...

A rare corpse orchid has bloomed at Powell Gardens. The flower is not known so much for its beauty as its stench.

An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator magnet and a symbol of the tropics. A vibrant plant with strikingly colourful bracts, it thrives in rainforest ...

A rare corpse orchid has bloomed at Powell Gardens. The flower is not known so much for its beauty as its stench.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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Somebody get Greta on the horn! Tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest are being cleared and paved over to build a new four-lane highway for, of all things, the upcoming COP30 ...

Time to save the rainforest … by bulldozing it? Such is the feckless privilege of the global “climate” kleptocrat class: In their infinite wisdom, these defenders of the planet wrecked a ...

Parasitism: Rafflesia, the world’s largest flower, takes water and nutrients from the host plant it grows on.