For a short window of time, visitors to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium will be in the presence of an unusual sight.

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A rare bloom with ... another rancid bloom at the Geelong Botanic Gardens southwest of Melbourne in November. The corpse flower or corpse plant, known as bunga ...

After last year’s incredible Washington D.C. corpse flower showing—where two of these rare flowers bloomed almost at the same time—gardeners and tourists alike have been waiting with bated breath to ...

SYDNEY (AP) — The rare ... the bloom. “Putricia is a metaphor for my life,” wrote one poster, who did not elaborate. Commenters on social media planned to hurry to the garden as the plant ...

A huge plant known as the corpse flower in recognition of its foul smell bloomed at the U.S. Botanic Garden on Sunday night, and another similar specimen may bloom imminently, the garden said.

That is where a desert-native Agave plant ... one bloom in the Pacific Northwest is a botanical unicorn event,” said the zoo’s lead horticulturist, Bryon Jones. “It’s extremely rare ...