Australia holds its nose for its 3rd rancid bloom of a rare corpse plant in 3 months
A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...
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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Rare ‘corpse flower’ briefly takes NYC by the nose
When a line of people are waiting around in Brooklyn, most people would assume they’re waiting for a concert. Instead, crowds ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Phys.org9d
Corpse flower's rare bloom aids forensic chemistry research
A corpse flower, aptly named Putricia, recently bloomed at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney for the first time in 15 years. For forensic scientist Bridget Thurn, it was a unique opportunity to ...
CNN16d
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 ...