A rare and foul-smelling moment in the plant kingdom is about to unfold at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The corpse flower named "Spike" is on the verge of blooming and if you've smelled one, you might ...

(CBS)--The wait is over for Spike, the corpse flower at the Chicago Botanic Garden, but it's not the smelly end fans had hoped for, reports WBBM's Bob Roberts. Spike's outer sheath or spathe was ...

After the blooms on your moth orchid (Phalaenopsis) have shriveled and fallen off the plant, you're left with a long, bare green stem (technically called a spike). Should you cut it off or leave it be ...

Children petted and caressed it and held their noses in mock disgust. Families took smiling selfies with it. Women knelt over, pressed their noses to the rubbery flesh, and sniffed its leaves. The ...

GLENCOE, Ill. (WLS) -- Alice, one of the Chicago Botanic Garden's rare corpse flowers, is now producing fruit. The flower, known as a titan arum, bloomed in September - weeks after another flower, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — If you head to the Nashville Zoo, you’ll be able to see one of the largest flowers in the world. Inside the zoo’s aviary located in the Unseen New World, you will find the ...