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
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before ...
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A plant in the ‘corpse flower’ family is blooming in Brooklyn: What does it smell like?
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WPIX) – If you’ve ever wondered what rotting flesh smells like, you can take a trip to Brooklyn, New York, to find out. Story continues below The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the ...
5 facts about corpse flowers that don’t stink
Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed Putricia has been blooming for the past week ...
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Rare and Stinky ‘Corpse Flower’ Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ...
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This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Thousands queue up for a sniff of Putricia! Corpse flower that smells of rotting flesh blooms for the first time in a decade
But it may be years until she has the energy to flower again. When in bloom, the plant's long yellow spadix emits a strong odour, often compared to the smell of decaying flesh, to trick ...
Stinky bloom of 'corpse flower' enthrals thousands
An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is about to bloom in Australia - and captivated the ...
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A flower blooms in Brooklyn, and it reeks of rotting flesh
Eric Schaller, a biology professor at Dartmouth College who studies corpse flowers, says the blooming plants are a scent to behold. “They smell like rotting flesh so as to attract their ...