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.

ENCINITAS, Calif. — It was just a few months ago, when the corpse flower at the San Diego Botanic Garden released the smell of death. Are you ready for round two? In this Zevely Zone, I introduce you ...

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 ...

Stinky flowers seem to be popular this week with the opening of the carrion flower in the Rollins College Greenhouse. It only lasted about a day but it lived up to its name briefly as residents passed ...