Rare blossom of corpse flower in Sydney

Rare and Stinky 'Corpse Flower' Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
The air was thick with both anticipation and a pungent smell as visitors flocked to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden last weekend for a chance to see a rare flower bloom. The Amorphophallus gigas—a cousin to Amorphophallus titanum,
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 fascinating lesson.
Thousands flock to see rare, smelly corpse flower bloom in Sydney
A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time in more than a decade, emitting an odour likened to rotting flesh and delighting thousands who queued for a whiff.
Big, stinky corpse flower Putricia blooms in Sydney, watched on by thousands via livestream
The flower has been said to smell like rotting flesh, wet socks or hot cat food, and only stinks for 24 hours after blooming.
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Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed Putricia has been blooming for the past week at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. This is the first time in 15 years that one of these flowers has bloomed in Sydney and over 20,000 people have stopped in to take a whiff.
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which resembles that of rotting flesh.
It's big, rare and dead smelly: Visitors flock to see the 'corpse flower' in bloom
Visitors gathered in Sydney to witness the blooming of a rare flower known as the "corpse flower," which opens for just 24 hours once every few years.
Rare corpse flower greets the public with putrid bloom in New York
New Yorkers lined up for hours outside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to catch a glimpse -- and a whiff -- of the facility's rare blooming corpse flower.
‘Stinky cheese, some poop smells’: See why New Yorkers are flocking to this rare ‘corpse flower’
It’s not a flower you’d likely buy on Valentine’s Day but the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s rare amorphophallus gigas plant is in bloom and visitors want a whiff – even if it does smell “like a rotting corpse.
Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, crowds drawn to its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
A rare corpse flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours Saturday to get a whiff of its unique scent.
Have You Seen This? New Yorkers hoping to get whiff of 'rotten corpse' flower
A bloom of a flower known as the 'corpse flower' in New York has attracted huge crowds hoping to get a glimpse and sniff of the rare event.
A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
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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 waiting stinks, but Sydney may soon enjoy the aroma of its 'corpse flower'
Staff and visitors at Australia's Royal Botanic Garden Sydney are hoping to see — and smell — a rare event that could come ...
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Tune Into a Livestream of a Blooming Corpse Flower in Sydney
The corpse flower at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden—nicknamed Putricia, a combination of putrid and Patricia—is drawing an enormous crowd. People are waiting three hours to see her bloom and ...
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Sydney’s long-awaited, foul-smelling ‘corpse flower’ is finally blooming
A humidifier wafts mist below the focus of everyone’s attention: a long-awaited debut into Sydney society, the vomit-smelling, rotting-flesh imitating “corpse flower” is blooming.
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Would You Stand in Line to Sniff the World’s Most Disgusting Flower?
Thousands of people bore witness to the rare and odorous blooming of Putricia the corpse flower in Sydney, Australia, this ...