What to know about the corpse flower, which smells like rotting meat
Corpse flower blooms are often inconsistent. Many will bloom once a decade, though sometimes even more frequently.
Australians flock to smelly opening of 'giant misshaped penis'
Its species name, Amorphophallus titanum, meanwhile, means "titanic misshaped penis" in Ancient Greek. These names are ...
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What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...
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Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, crowds drawn to its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent. Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for ...
The curtains have closed on Putricia. Here’s what she looks like now
John Siemon should have been on hand as curtains fell on the live-streamed corpse flower named Putricia, which drew 1.7 ...
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5 facts about corpse flowers that don’t stink
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 ...
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Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
“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 ...
Australians flock to smelly opening of 'misshaped penis'
A rare 'corpse flower' bloom in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens has attracted over 20,000 visitors. The flower, which emits a ...