Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
It smells like feet, cheese and rotten meat. It just smelled like the worst possible combination of smells,” Elijah Blades ...
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.
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The 'giant misshapen penis' flower sums up our simple human need for joy
When hordes turn out to see – and smell – the blooming of a flower, it says something important about the human spirit.
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Crowd gets whiff of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's corpse flower
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Amorphophallus gigas, a close relative of the famed corpse flower and apparently plenty ...
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A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia ...