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 historian, so it took only a few seconds to place it: the stench of the rat ...

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, ...

The blooming started on Saturday night and will last until Monday, by which time the reservations for visits to the Canberra botanical garden have already been exhausted. There are events that are ...

A rare flower that smells like decaying flesh was attracting visitors in the Australian capital Canberra for the third flowering of the amorphophallus titanum in recent months.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A rare flower that smells like decaying flesh was attracting ...

A corpse flower, aptly named Putricia, recently bloomed at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney for the first time in 15 years. For forensic scientist Bridget Thurn, it was a unique opportunity to ...

Horticulturalists said the spike in the centre of the rare and endangered flower measures 158cm and is still growing. Once it stops growing, the petals will begin to open. The corpse flower is ...

A giant, rare and notoriously stinky flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over the weekend, drawing hundreds to smell something “putrid.” The Amorphophallus gigas, known as the “corpse flower ...

Visitors crowded the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday, January 24, to catch a glimpse of the blooming Amorphophallus gigas, also known as a “corpse flower,” due to its unique stench.