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A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest. But to fans of ...
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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.
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.
Second stinky corpse flower blooms in private at Botanic Gardens of Sydney
A second stinky corpse flower started opening up on Saturday afternoon, but unlike Putricia's public display her "sister" is ...
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 ...
The night I accidentally became a corpse flower’s bedside manservant
I ran to the Royal Botanic Garden late last night – and accidentally became involved with the stinky, intimate art of Putricia’s pollination.
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Putricia the putrid corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Garden basks in internet fame
Wonderful piece of evolution': Stinky corpse flower 'Putricia' blooms in Sydney Nina Berezovskis ... The rare and endangered plant is usually found in the West Sumatran rainforests, with estimates ...
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A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
It is the first time a corpse flower has bloomed at the Royal Sydney ... As well as her real-life admirers, the 5-foot Sumatran rainforest plant has drawn an eccentric but devoted online fandom.