The name "corpse flower" is enough to gain attention. So is its nickname Stinky (the flower is said to smell like rotting flesh or dead fish …) but the flower's scientific name is what's really ...

The scientific name, especially the species portion, can tell us a variety of things about a plant, like the color of the flowers, the plant’s height, the shape of the foliage, if the plant is ...

The scientific names for all these plants weren’t up to the seed companies or plant nurseries to decide. That responsibility fell to the International Botanical Congress which first met in 1864.

Putricia, the smelliest flower in the world, displayed a rare bloom in the glasshouse of the Australian Botanic Garden.

It sprouts a compound flower (technically an unbranched inflorescence) made up of hundreds of small flowers packed in rings at the base of its central, column-like structure.

Without the necessary care, the mallow faded into obscurity. Its rareness, though, has given the sweet-smelling flower (scientific name Iliamna remota) an almost rock-star status.

Green antelophehorn milkweed, scientific name Asclepias, is the earliest blooming one in the area, starting to flower in May. It is a tall green plant with clusters of small white flowers.

The plants are organized alphabetically by scientific name.

The rare corpse flower is about to bloom, and you don't have to be a 12-year-old to laugh at its scientific name.

Green antelophehorn milkweed, scientific name Asclepias, is the earliest blooming one in the area, starting to flower in May. It is a tall green plant with clusters of small white flowers.