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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Putricia the ‘corpse flower’ pulls a crowd of 27,000 keen for a whiff at Sydney’s Botanical Gardens
A putrid-smelling flower that has become an online sensation drew a crowd of 27,000 people wanting to a whiff of the odour.
“It smells like feet, cheese and rotten meat.”
The rare Amorphophallus gigas has bloomed for the first time since arriving in Brooklyn in 2018 — and it has an infamously ...
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This flower smells like a rotting corpse. Brave visitors smelled its stench
It smells like feet, cheese and rotten meat." The rare Amorphophallus gigas bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...
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Scott Neuman is a correspondent for NPR's Enterprise Desk, based in Washington, D.C. He joined the network in 2007 as a breaking news editor and reporter, but has since moved into writing longer ...