Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful ...
Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...
There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their putrid aroma for all to smell. Such was the case in Canberra, ...
A rare bloom of a corpse flower — with a pungent odor similar to decaying flesh — has attracted big crowds to a botanical garden in the Australian capital Canberra, the third such extraordinary ...
When a line of people are waiting around in Brooklyn, most people would assume they’re waiting for a concert. Instead, crowds ...
The corpse flower or corpse plant, known as bunga bangkai in its native Indonesia, is endemic to the rainforests of western ...
Sydney's corpse flower Putricia is on display at the Royal Botanic Garden. It will only bloom for about 24 hours before dying. Thousands of people are watching Putricia's live stream on YouTube.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A putrid-smelling species of flower commonly known as a "corpse flower" is causing quite a stink at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Affectionately named "Smelliot" by garden staff, this ...
This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...
“That was disgusting.” The rare Amorphophallus gigas – a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower – has bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...
Three-hour queues full of people waiting to smell the odor of rotting flesh seems an unusual tourist attraction, but such is the lure of a rare flower bloom in an Australian greenhouse. A “corpse ...