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CHICAGO (WGN) — Here in Chicago, warm temperatures may be nowhere in sight, but you can still get a taste of tropical weather at the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the Regenstein Center’s exhibit ...

A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the world's most threatened plants from extinction. Researchers analyzed a ...

The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...

Cambridge University Botanic Garden was the first botanic garden in the UK to grow this endangered tree species. It is distributed in at least 372 botanic gardens globally. A major study of ...

One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which ...

NEW YORK — A foul-smelling corpse flower is blooming at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The BBG said around New Year's Eve, a gardener noticed the plant's inflorescence was starting to emerge and ...

Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a ...

Putricia the big stinky corpse flower which bloomed at the botanic gardens in Sydney on Thursday has been visited by almost 20,000 people. Almost a million more have followed the plant's journey ...

NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent. Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for ...