Sydney’s long-awaited, foul-smelling ‘corpse flower’ is finally blooming
Visitors are invited to come to smell the corpse flower’s rotten perfume during extended opening hours at the botanic garden ...
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Thousands flock to smell plant that reeks of dead rat, rotting rubbish
She may smell like rotting flesh but “Putricia”, the internet-famous corpse flower, has been the centre of attention at the ...
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A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
Tall, pointed, and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest. But to fans ...
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A plant in the ‘corpse flower’ family is blooming in Brooklyn: What does it smell like?
The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous “corpse flower,” is beginning to bloom at the Aquatic House in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. “I think this is an equally impressive ...
The curtains have closed on Putricia. Here’s what she looks like now
John Siemon should have been on hand as curtains fell on the live-streamed corpse flower named Putricia, which drew 1.7 ...
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Rare plant emits a stink of death when it blooms. Thousands queued to get close to it
An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a greenhouse in Sydney SYDNEY -- The rare unfurling of an endangered plant that ...
This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike ...
The night I accidentally became a corpse flower’s bedside manservant
I ran to the Botanic Gardens late last night – and accidentally became involved with the stinky, intimate art of Putricia’s pollination.