Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
Rare and Stinky ‘Corpse Flower’ Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ...
Big, stinky corpse flower Putricia blooms in Sydney, watched on by thousands via livestream
The flower has been said to smell like rotting flesh, wet socks or hot cat food, and only stinks for 24 hours after blooming.
The Associated Press on MSN9d
A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...
Thousands flock to see rare, smelly corpse flower bloom in Sydney
A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time in more than a decade, emitting an ...
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Corpse flowers smell like death, but thousands rush to see them bloom
Sydney's corpse flower attracts thousands of people with its rare blossom and its stench of rotting flesh, offering a ...
Tune Into a Livestream of a Blooming Corpse Flower in Sydney
The corpse flower at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden—nicknamed Putricia, a combination of putrid and Patricia —is drawing an enormous crowd. People are waiting three hours to see her bloom and get a ...
The Associated Press on MSN7d
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before ...
After 7-year wait, corpse flower Putricia blooms in Sydney
The bloom has attracted up to 20,000 admirers who filed past, hoping to experience the smell for themselves, with some ...
Adelaide corpse flowers spread endangered stench to Sydney and beyond
Hand-pollination of the pungent corpse flower results in hundreds of seeds that will be sent across the world to help ...
Sydney's corpse flower 'Putricia' beginning to bloom
It's been 15 years since the foul-smelling flower showed its petals in Sydney, but the rare Amorphophallus titanum – also ...
5 facts about corpse flowers that don’t stink
Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed Putricia has been blooming for the past week ...
NewsWire on MSN10d
Large crowds gather as corpse flower blooms at Sydney Botanic Gardens after 15 years
The corpse flower has finally bloomed at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, treating visitors to its repugnant smell for the first ...