Smelly Situation: Why Some Flowers Reek

Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

At any minute, an enormous bloom that reeks of rotting flesh will bloom in the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. But the plant, aptly nicknamed the corpse flower, is only one of many that produces stinky blooms.

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