Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s rare Amorphophallus gigas, native to Sumatra, bloomed for the first time since ...

A 'perfectly putrid' corpse flower is drawing crowds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it blooms for the first time since its ...

People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ...

New Yorkers lined up for hours outside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to catch a glimpse -- and a whiff -- of the facility's ...

The monumental blooming marks the first time an Amorphophallus gigas — a plant native to Sumatra and lovingly nicknamed the corpse flower — has opened its petals at the Crown Heights garden. It is the ...

The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous “corpse flower,” is beginning to bloom at the Aquatic House in the ...

Visitors crowded the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday, January 24, to catch a glimpse of the blooming Amorphophallus gigas, ...

It smells like feet, cheese and rotten meat. It just smelled like the worst possible combination of smells,” Elijah Blades ...

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh.

“That was disgusting.” Amorphophallus gigas − Smelliot − is so rare only nine other botanic gardens are listed as having one, according to Botanic Gardens Conservation Internationa ...

The putrid smelling Amorphophallus gigas is related to the more common Amorphophallus titanum. A. gigas might be a little less dramatic in appearance than its relative, but its flower head–or ...

The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous “corpse flower,” is beginning to bloom at the Aquatic House in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. “I think this is an equally impressive ...