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.
Australia holds its nose for its 3rd rancid bloom of a rare corpse plant in 3 months
A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...
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In extraordinary timing, a second corpse flower has bloomed in Sydney
Putricia was the first corpse flower to bloom at the gardens in 15 ... What Putricia looks like now: a cone of developing fruit, which will hopefully produce seeds.Credit: Royal Botanic Gardens ...
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A Stinky Pilgrimage To The Corpse Flower, With Notes Of Rat, Sweat, And Cheese
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 ...
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Tom Robbins, literary prankster-philosopher, dies at 92
Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures ...
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Corpse flower: Plant with 'rotting flesh smell' blooms in Australia
A rare flower with a pungent odour that has been likened to decaying flesh, rotten eggs and sewage has bloomed in Australia - the third such flowering in recent months. The corpse flower ...
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New Scientist recommends the corpse flower at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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 ...
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‘Gag-worthy’: Rare corpse flower blooms in Australia, drawing crowds and stench
A rare corpse flower, Amorphophallus titanum, bloomed after 15 years at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens, drawing hundreds of visitors despite its pungent odor. It's the third such ...