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Rare ‘corpse flower’ blooms at botanic garden, drawing crowds
A rare corpse flower, Amorphophallus gigas, bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, attracting long queues of visitors ...
The Australian Financial Review19d
Corpse flower ‘Putricia’ begins long-awaited stinky bloom
A giant foul-smelling flower that has become an unlikely internet darling has finally begun to bloom - and its rotting flesh-like odour has not been enough to deter its many fans. The corpse ...
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Corpse flower blooms at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens for the first time
An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...
Public Radio International1d
Australians flock to sniff a corpse flower
A rare bloom of a corpse flower — with a pungent odor similar to decaying flesh — has attracted big crowds to a botanical garden in the Australian capital Canberra, the third such extraordinary ...
The New York Times19d
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 rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
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Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
“That was disgusting.” The rare Amorphophallus gigas – a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower – has bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...
USA Today16d
What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...
Sydney Morning Herald20d
Corpse flower as it happened: ‘Putricia’ in full bloom at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens
In the wild, the stench of a corpse flower is meant to attract thousands of flies to pollinate itself. Flies swarm to Putricia.Credit: At Botanic Gardens in Sydney, staff will extract pollen ...
Putricia the corpse flower: would you wait 3.5 hours to smell a rotten carcass?
First there was Moo Deng, then there was Pesto the Penguin – but have you met Sydney's Putricia, the corpse flower? To the ...
Sydney Morning Herald4d
In extraordinary timing, a second corpse flower has bloomed in Sydney
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Death knocks twice. In an extraordinary botanical double-act, a second corpse flower has started to bloom at the Royal Botanic ...