Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My nose alerted me the other morning that, at last, my voodoo lily had come into its fetid splendor. It, along with a handful of ...

Last November, San Diegans got the stench of the titan arum — or corpse flower. This week, the corpse flower’s cousin, the voodoo lily, is raising a stink at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas.

The stinky plant has put up its annual bloom — a 4-foot-tall, cone-shaped stalk surrounded by a blood-red frill. The stalk gives off an odor like rotting flesh to attract flies for pollination, said ...

MEXICO CITY Mexicans cleaned the bones of dead relatives and decorated their graves with flowers and candy skulls. In Haiti, voodoo practitioners circled an iron cross at a cemetery and poured ...

Halloween’s here, so, of course, it’s International Bat Week. With 11 species of bats that live around the Houston area, we have plenty of opportunities to interact with them in our gardens or out and ...

Back in 2013, while visiting Betty Hall, I noticed a large, burgundy, white-speckled, strange-looking lily growing in the shade garden behind her home. “That’s a voodoo lily,” Betty said. “It is ...

'Voodoo lilies' are stinking out Begonia House at Wellington's Botanic Garden. There are two lilies in the greenhouse, the Amorphophallus konjac and the Sauromatum venosum, both of which the Garden's ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. (KGTV) — A konjac plant that is the smaller cousin of a rare, foul-smelling "corpse flower" has bloomed at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas. The Amorphophallus konjac, which ...

My nose alerted me the other morning that, at last, my voodoo lily had come into its fetid splendor. It, along with a handful of other more celebrated garden plants, has one of the most unusual flower ...