A rare corpse flower named “Chanel” has entered its brief, foul-smelling bloom at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, drawing ...

If you’ve ever wanted to smell a flower that’s scent has been compared to rotting flesh, this could be your chance. That’s right, a titan arum flower, more commonly known as a corpse flower, is ...

San Francisco's notorious corpse flower 'Chanel' is about to bloom at the Conservatory, bringing crowds eager to smell its ...

The flower is now in bloom. The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers posted their update on Tuesday at around 4:30 ...

The stench - which is strongest on the first day of the flower's two-day bloom - has been likened in the past to dead animals ...

Something rare, massive, and very smelly is about to happen at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco: Chanel the ...

Dozens of people turned out to witness the rare unfurling of a tropical plant that emits a powerful stench at a botanical ...

A rare plant housed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, infamous for its putrefying stench, is on the verge of blooming. State of play: Affectionately nicknamed Chanel by staff, the Titan ...

A heatmap of the corpse flower (right) compared to a visible light image (left). The titan arum heats up about 20 degrees Fahrenheit over the ambient temperature when the flower blooms.

The corpse flower stores its energy in a swollen base at the stem–called a corm–that weighs about 100 pounds. Corpse flowers have the largest known corm in the plant kingdom.

A rare corpse flower will bloom at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park for the first time in two ...