Visitors crowded the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday, January 24, to catch a glimpse of the blooming Amorphophallus gigas, also known as a “corpse flower,” due to its unique stench.

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 ...

During their study, the researchers learned of one botanic garden that had all albino corpse flower offspring, potentially due to inbreeding. “They didn’t survive, because they didn’t have ...

And you can watch a time-lapse video of a corpse flower blooming at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC below (which, fortunately, does not come with smell-o-vision).

The early-blooming specimens have just blossomed, with sixteen kinds of cherries now in flower. According to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s cherry blossom tracker, many trees are in peak bloom ...