Visitors will have the chance Wednesday to experience the pungent smell of the corpse flower that is blooming at Como Park ...

Zoo staffers and visitors have been waiting for days to see the flower and smell the stench that comes when Frederick the Corpse Flower finally opens up.

Native to the rainforests of western Sumatra in Indonesia, corpse flowers are infamous for their stench. To attract ...

Frederick the corpse flower, a rare, stinky plant at the Como Zoo Conservatory, has started to bloom. That means you now have a limited window to take a sniff of the pungent flower. More info here: ...

Another corpse flower is now in bloom at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul. The zoo has named the flower Frederick — it is 8 years old and around 80 inches tall.

People have their photo taken in front of the corpse flower "Frederick" in the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

San Francisco's Corpse Flower "Chanel" is in bloom at the Conservatory of Flowers, emitting its notorious, foul smell for ...

San Francisco's notorious corpse flower 'Chanel' is about to bloom at the Conservatory, bringing crowds eager to smell its ...

So they don't bloom very often, but they also don't bloom for very long, either. The United States Botanic Garden says they ...

Meet Frederick the Corpse Flower. He is 8 years old and 68 inches tall, according to the Como Zoo website.Zoo staff are prepping for a massive stench once the flower starts to open.

People have described the smell of a corpse flower bloom as rotting flesh. A KQED reporter found that description to be spot ...