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"Stink Floyd," a 12-year-old corpse flower, is expected to bloom soon — as early as this weekend, according to officials at ...
"This isn’t just a flower—it’s a 10-foot-tall botanical rock star when in full bloom: Rare. Rancid. Ridiculously cool," ...
As he launches a North American stadium tour and his "Hurry Up Tomorrow" film, Abel Tesfaye reflects on losing his voice ...
Reiman Gardens in Ames is inviting the public to experience the “dark side of the bloom” when their corpse flower named Stink ...
The corpse plant known as "Stink Floyd," is almost in bloom. How to get ready for the stink at Reiman Gardens.
Visitors flock to botanic gardens when their corpse flowers are in bloom. But these charismatic plants are threatened by inbreeding and low genetic diversity, in part due to spotty recordkeeping ...
In a recent study, scientists traced the ancestry of corpse flowers held in botanical gardens and institutional collections worldwide. They discovered a major gap in standardized, consistent data.
Botanists at the Dahlem Seed Bank in Berlin are running germination tests with seeds of the threatened swamp-dwelling plant Gentianella uliginosa, which has purple flowers (top panel). The goal is ...