Titan arum, the world's largest and smelliest flower on Thursday attracted crowds at Sydney's Royal Botanic gardens. Its biological name, Amorphophallus titanum, means very large, deformed, penis. The flower, which can grow up to three meters in height, has a pale yellow wrinkled center and smells like rotten fish. A crowd of people, however, have lined up at the Royal Gardens on Thursday to get a scent of the flower during an exhibition.

A couple from a historic neighborhood near downtown Des Moines is trying to be positive about the theft of flowers from his 1880s-era home. The reason - a note left by a courteous thief thanking the owner of the flowers. Jason Jasnos told the to Des Moines Register that he found the note in his garden Sunday, a day after he caught two women clutching a bunch of posies picked from his garden.

Police have charged a 14-year-old boy of "meowing" at his 78-year-old neighbor every time he sees her. Now a district judge has been asked to determine whether the meowing qualifies as misdemeanor harassment. The boy does not like his neighbor, Alexandria Carasia, because she called the police and complained his family's cat was turning her flower garden into a litter box. They were forced to get rid of their cat have not gotten along with Carasia since.

The University of Virginia Tech has hosted a rare viewing of a "corpse flower" in bloom. Hundreds lined up to see the Indonesian Amorphophallus titanum, which blooms only once every few years, and produces a stench which can be smelled over a hundred yards away.

Some residents of Chicago are speaking out against an artwork exhibit that will adorn the front of the new Kimball Avenue Brown line station. A sculpture by Josh Garber of two 10-foot-tall aluminum lotus blossoms bears a striking resemblance to a not-so public part of a man's anatomy.