Horticulturists and garden staffers are working to ensure plants, trees and shrubs survive the expected freezing temperatures ...

Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans flock to see them—and, perhaps more importantly, to smell them. These large, ...

The United States Botanic Garden smelled distinctly like a dead body last night, but there wasn’t any foul play involved. One of the garden’s fleeting, foul-smelling “Corpse Flowers” opened in the ...

Botanic gardens hold a third of Earth’s plant species, but broken data systems are slowing conservation when climate risks ...

Something is about to stink up the District — and we swear this isn't a joke about politics. The Amorphophallus titanium, better known as the corpse flower, is a rare, 8-foot-tall flower that blooms ...

Tony Holland gawked at the sprawling flower, which jutted more than 6 feet above him. Its distinct, rancid odor cut through the air, like rotting flesh. It was Holland’s dream come true. “Just to be ...

This summer, Brooklyn Botanic Garden presents Jean-Michel Othoniel: The Flowers of Hypnosis, an exhibition of six new sculptures sited in three of BBG's best-known gardens. Othoniel's new sculptures ...

Adams’ UDBG internship was a key in steering his academic path from chemical engineering to plant science. He worked part ...

Thousands of curious visitors are getting a whiff of rotting flesh-like aroma as a rare flower blooms for just the second time in the last 20 years.

Denver Botanic Gardens is a 24-acre oasis in the middle of the Mile High City. Dedicated in 1954, it has grown into a preeminent horticultural venue, displaying more than 36,000 plants across 50 ...

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. The Missouri Botanical Garden has drawn crowds ...

It’s the season for glistening, metallic flowers to bloom in Brooklyn. Come to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the majesty of nature (and 12,000 different plants), stay for the French artist ...