According to the botanical garden, the Corpse Flower’s actual name is the titan arum. The flower gives off a foul smell “mimicking rotting flesh” when it blooms—which is usually just over a day ...

Paul Chester Robertson, 79, of Battlefield, MO passed away Saturday, June 21, 2025. He was born January 20, 1946, to Chester ...

Left tackle Marcus Bryant followed Membou as the 220nd overall pick to the New England Patriots, giving the position group ...

Kochia threatens yields, grows rapidly and aggressively outcompetes crops for water, nutrients and sunlight. It tolerates ...

About 250 peony plants – or approximately one-third of the peony plants on the north side of the garden – were discovered with most of their flowers cut off at about 6:14 a.m. on June 1. In ...

The University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security said officers found that about 250 peony plants of the garden's roughly 800 peony plants had most of their flowers appear to have ...

Protecting delicate and rare plants and trees from around the world was one of the challenges of building the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. The LEED ...

At nearly 400 acres, it is one of the largest botanical gardens in the U.S. Considered a living museum, the garden also does groundbreaking plant conservation research. Missouri Botanical Garden ...

More than just storage The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Seed Bank is housed in a modest building of the Shaw Nature Reserve, on the outskirts of St. Louis.

Dr. Lucia G. Lohmann poses for a portrait at the Missouri Botanical Garden in Tower Grove on Monday Nov. 4, 2024. Lúcia Lohmann will become the first woman to be president of the Missouri Botanical ...

The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden—dedicated to sustainability and highlighting rare plants from around the world—is a showcase of innovation and conservation ...

University of São Paulo scientist Matheus Colli-Silva used the herbarium at Missouri Botanical Garden to discover new relatives of the cacao tree recently. Image courtesy of Juliana Phillip.