The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Amorphophallus gigas, a close relative of the famed corpse flower and apparently plenty ...
NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a ...
Similar to the better-known corpse flower, the central spike of an Amorphophallus gigas can grow to be up to 12 feet tall. They can take seven years or more to bloom and can wither just a day ...
Like its better-known “corpse flower” cousin, which gives off a similarly putrid smell, the Amorphophallus gigas is also notable for its central spike, which can grow up to 12 feet tall.
"Amorphophallus gigas," nicknamed the "corpse flower" for the rotting flesh odor it emits, is expected to bloom at the ...
Visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are lining up to see — and smell — a rare bloom at that has the scent of a rotting corpse.