You probably wouldn’t line up to smell something reminiscent of gym socks and rotting garbage—but when that something is a corpse flower, many will make an exception. According to the ...
Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a ...
Today, it’s not a tree that’s growing in Brooklyn. Instead, the petals of a rare type of corpse flower have officially opened up at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The putrid smelling ...
The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous corpse flower, will bloom soon at the Aquatic House in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. “I think this is an equally impressive species ...
“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 ...
SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time in more than a decade, emitting an odour likened to rotting flesh and delighting ...
The Amorphophallus gigas—a cousin to Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as a corpse flower—is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The specimen in Brooklyn, nicknamed “Smelliot ...
Putricia the big stinky corpse flower which bloomed at the botanic gardens in Sydney on Thursday has been visited by almost 20,000 people. Almost a million more have followed the plant's journey ...
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 has reached the climax of her necrotic bloom when I arrive at her bedside at 10pm. The corpse flower’s glasshouse smells of a cadaver on the turn. And the woman who raised her ...