A botanic garden on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol is expecting a stinky first in coming days as a trio of so-called corpse flowers is due to open and release an odor likened to the smell of ...

An unusually large number of visitors turned up to see an “Amorphophallus gigas," also known as the "corpse flower", bloom for the first time at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday (January 24).