The monumental blooming marks the first time an Amorphophallus gigas — a plant native to Sumatra and lovingly nicknamed the corpse flower — has opened its petals at the Crown Heights garden. It is the ...
New Yorkers lined up for hours outside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to catch a glimpse -- and a whiff -- of the facility's ...
A rare corpse flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours Saturday to get a whiff of ...
A 'perfectly putrid' corpse flower is drawing crowds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it blooms for the first time since its ...
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike ...
NEW YORK — A foul-smelling corpse flower is expected to bloom this week at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The BBG posted on its ...
Nicknamed “Smelliot” by garden staff, the bloom is extremely rare — only nine other botanical gardens have reported having the plant, according to BBG’s website. Brooklyn’s plant, a seven-year-old ...
it will smell like rotting flesh,” says BBG gardener Chris Sprindis. The flower is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra and is an “infrequent bloomer” according to the garden’s ...
This is the first time the corpse flower has bloomed at Brooklyn Botanic Garden since its arrival from Malaysia in 2018.
the BBG received seven years ago as a seedling from an orchid nursery in Malaysia. It’s only one of four known to be in a garden in the United States. It bloomed for the first time Thursday ...
the BBG received seven years ago as a seedling from an orchid nursery in Malaysia. It’s only one of four known to be in a garden in the United States. It bloomed for the first time Thursday ...