The spadix, or flower spike, of titan arum emits heat when it is in bloom. According to researchers, this facilitates the smell's transmission and can draw pollinators from up to a half mile ...

The powerful scent of rotting flesh is set to waft through the air at a Melbourne garden centre to the delight of hundreds of ...

The corpse flower blooms for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Despite the smell associated with the plant ... A flower is produced when the titan arum has stored enough energy in its underground tuber, known as a corm. Ms Dale said: “One of the theories ...