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While the Chicago Botanic Garden has an extensive variety of plants on its sprawling 385-acre campus, one flower in particular is hard to miss. That's not only because of its gigantic size but its ...
Just as the spring weather finally blooms in Chicago, so is the corpse flower (or titan arum) at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Chicago Botanic Garden's biggest corpse flower ever blooms - Chicago ...
The Chicago Botanic Garden has eight other "corpse flowers," which could bloom in years to come. Meanwhile, Spike's spathe will be on display through Tuesday at noon.
The Botanic Garden has housed titan arums since 2003, and now nurtures 18 of the endangered species. They’re native to rugged rainforests on Sumatra, an Indonesian island along the equator.
A rare and foul-smelling moment in the plant kingdom is about to unfold at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The corpse flower named "Spike" is on the verge of blooming and if you've smelled one, you ...
What’s just under 5 feet tall, unfurls a maroon leaf and reeks of death when it blooms? It’s Alice, a titan arum, nicknamed the corpse flower, blooming at the Chicago Botanic Garden. On… ...
Kay Havens remembers her first visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden. It was around 1981, and she was home from college ... Today, the 385-acre garden has 2,587,596 plants.
The Chicago Botanic Garden will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Jan. 25. A free lecture, "Spike and Alice: The Fruits of our labors," will be held 1:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at the garden's Alsdorf ...
GLENCOE, Ill. -- Alice, one of the Chicago Botanic Gardens' eight titan arums or corpse flowers, bloomed overnight and is available for the public to see and smell. The garden announced the flower ...