In 1878, Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari came across the enormous plant growing in the rainforests of Sumatra, a large island in western Indonesia. The specimen he recorded had a circumference of ...

Maybe the word most associated with Georgia O’Keeffe is “vagina,” but it could just as easily be “cash.” Sold in 2014 for $44.4 million, “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” holds the record for the ...

A blue Egyptian water lily, a potential inspiration for flower petals painted on a casket found in Tut's tomb. 68/Partha Pal/Ocean/Corbis What makes us want to grow a lily in a pot? It’s a question at ...

DENVER, Colo. - Can't stop hearing about this amazing corpse flower at the Denver Botanic Garden? It's supposed to bloom any day now. But before it opens and starts to stink up Denver, we thought ...