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Rare and Stinky 'Corpse Flower' Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
A 24/7 livestream of the flower, dubbed “Putricia,” garnered more than one million views. “Something that occurs this rarely ...
Blooming corpse flower unleashes foul ‘rotten flesh’ stench at Brooklyn Botanical Garden in historical first
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 ...
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Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
It was the first time in 15 years that a corpse flower has bloomed at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. That plant’s flower was also spotted in December, when it was 10 inches (25 centimeters ...