Corpse flower blooms at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens for the first time
The corpse flower at the Australian National Botanic Gardens is at least 15 years old but had never flowered before now.
In extraordinary timing, a second corpse flower has bloomed in Sydney
The incredible botanical coincidence comes just two and a half weeks after the flower named Putricia became a global ...
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Justice for the stinky plant languishing at Auckland Zoo
She smells like a decaying corpse and lurks in the backrooms of Auckland Zoo, wallowing tragically in a bucket. In recent ...
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.
Brooklyn's rare corpse flower dazzles and disgusts with pungent bloom
It smells like feet, cheese and rotten meat. It just smelled like the worst possible combination of smells,” Elijah Blades ...
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Researcher uncovers just how much Sydney's corpse flower Putricia smells like human remains
A PhD candidate has taken samples of corpse flower Putricia, which bloomed in Sydney last month. She analysed the samples in a lab and found similar compounds to human decomposition. It ...
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POLL — Would you smell this stinky flower?
This is not one of those flowers. The titan arum has been nicknamed the corpse flower for its awful odour, which some compare to “rotting meat” or a “slaughterhouse”. Despite that ...
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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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The 'giant misshapen penis' flower sums up our simple human need for joy
Thousands of people queued in Australia last week to smell a flower. The corpse flower, which blooms once every few years, but for only around 24 hours, opened at Sydney Botanic Gardens. There have ...