Seemingly overnight, a Redding gardener said, a rather ordinary-looking plant growing in her yard suddenly developed a bright yellow-tipped, 17-foot-tall flower stalk. The plant sure had never bloomed ...

TEMPO.CO, Cianjur - The corpse flower or Amorphophallus titanium Becc has once again bloomed at the Cibodas Botanic Garden in Sindangjaya, Cipanas District, Cianjur Regency, West Java, Indonesia.

For the longest time, tall plants have been relegated to the back of the garden, up against a fence or off to a corner, shunted aside like that 6-foot seventh-grader who was always in the last row for ...