Sydney resident Rebecca McGee-Collett, who waited 90 minutes to see the flower on Thursday evening, said the flower was beautiful − but the smell was "like hot garbage".

SYDNEY (AP) — The rare unfurling of an endangered plant that emits the smell of decaying ... and a fragrance evoking gym socks and rotting garbage. Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower ...

SYDNEY (AP) — The rare unfurling of an endangered plant that emits the smell of decaying ... and a fragrance evoking gym socks and rotting garbage. Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower ...

Dubbed Putricia, the titan arum plant emits a putrid smell likened to "something rotting" or "hot garbage" for 24 hours after blooming. The smell is the result of a chemical production that happens in ...