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 ...

A rare bloom with a pungent odour like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital – the nation’s third such extraordinary flowering in as many months.

The corpse flower at the Australian National Botanic Gardens is at least 15 years old but had never flowered before now.