Native to western Sumatra, Indonesia, the corpse flower, or bunga bangkai, blooms only once every 7 to 10 years, releasing a foul odour to attract flies and carrion beetles for pollination.

A corpse flower blooming in Cairns, Australia, in January 2018. Mangiwau/Moment RF/Getty Images Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter .

Australia has been importing fresh-cut flowers for 45 years, but those working in the industry say there is little regulation, no country of origin labelling laws and an ever-present biosecurity risk.

Thousands of people queued up in the city of Geelong, south of Melbourne in Australia, to catch a glimpse of what's once-in-a-decade occurrence -- the blooming 'corpse flower'.

Australia’s boutique spirit makers are embracing farm-to-table consumerism and developing a growing interest in unique spirits, but they’re also cultivating a broad Australian sense of terroir.

First described in 1990 and illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, ... We have produced a searchable list of Australian native plants lacking photographs.

Invasive species experts are sounding the alarm over a nasty weed continuing to sting the Australian economy, that outcompetes native vegetation, is extremely difficult to remove and is even still ...

New research has shown that certain Australian native flowers have shifted away from using insects as pollinators and evolved their flower color to the red hues favored by birds.

After a family tragedy, 9-year-old Alice Hart is taken in by her estranged grandmother, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that ...

While there is no shortage of research on European honey bees and the various threats to their survival, experts fear a paucity of data on native species means they are quietly dying out.