A rare, stinky corpse flower recently bloomed in Sydney, Australia. CBC Kids News asks kids if they would go out of their way ...

Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as ... she’s Putricia -- a portmanteau of “putrid” and “Patricia” eagerly adopted by her followers who, naturally ...

New Yorkers lined up for hours outside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to catch a glimpse -- and a whiff -- of the facility's ...

Its species name, Amorphophallus titanum, meanwhile, means "titanic misshaped penis" in Ancient Greek. These names are accurate descriptions. Some corpse flowers have been known to grow three meters ...

A 'perfectly putrid' corpse flower is drawing crowds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it blooms for the first time since its ...

These insects lay their eggs on the spadix. The corpse flower housed in the Sydney Palm House has been christened “Putricia” — a combination of the woman’s name Patricia, and the aptly descriptive ...

“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 ...

Putricia, a portmanteau of "putrid" and "Patricia," stands tall and pointed against a gothic purple backdrop, enhanced by a misting humidifier. This is the first corpse flower blooming at the ...

A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time ... visiting the specimen nicknamed Putricia – a combination of “putrid” and “Patricia” – at the city’s Royal ...

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 ...

The rare unfurling of an endangered plant that emits the smell of decaying flesh drew hundreds of devoted fans Thursday to a greenhouse in Sydney where they joined three-hour lines to experience a ...