When it blooms, this stinky flower releases chemicals that smell like rotting flesh to attact pollinators, such as carrion ...

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Now that the weather is cooling, you might notice that some of the plants we encounter look nothing like their mid-summer ...

In the Australian city Geelong, just south of Melbourne, thousands are lining up for the rare chance to see – and smell – an unusual plant.

The Shibpur botanical garden, India’s oldest living plant repository housing 1,377 species and the legendary Great Banyan ...

Learn about 5 of the weirdest killer plants on the planet. Learn about the Corpse Flower, Pitcher Plant, Venus Fly Trap, African Baobab Tree and Gympie Gympie. The Corpse Flower native to the ...

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Baobabs are also the longest-lived African trees; in 2011, a baobab that died in Zimbabwe at the age of 2,450 made it the oldest of all flowering plants to be documented on the African continent.