This remarkable flower is as notorious for its fragrance as it is for its size. Commonly, known as the ‘corpse flower’, it ...
One year ago today, Putricia bloomed at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney 🌸 For just 24 hours, Sydney’s legendary corpse flower ...
A rare corpse flower is set to bloom, bringing with it a smell that is comparable with rotting flesh. Following a 20-year ...
Thousands of people are lining up for the opportunity to smell a flower that reeks of rotten flesh.
Cheese, fermented cabbage, roadkill – these are how some people have described the smell emitting from a corpse flower that ...
Thousands of curious visitors are getting a whiff of rotting flesh-like aroma as a rare flower blooms for just the second ...
Adelaide’s corpse flower has come to life but you better act quick if you want to get a whiff of the giant, foul-smelling ...
The famously foul-smelling titan arum, affectionately nicknamed Smellanie, has bloomed at Adelaide Botanic Garden, drawing crowds eager to witness one of nature’s rarest and strangest spectacles.
The plant uses this scent to mimic a rotting corpse, attracting pollinators that feed on flesh and lay eggs, such as carrion beetles and flies.
When we think of flowers, we imagine fresh, pleasant fragrances. Roses, jasmine, lilies, all things nice. But nature, as ...
Rare corpse flower Smellanie has burst into bloom at Adelaide Botanic Garden, drawing hundreds in the first hours to experience its rotting flesh aroma before it collapses within days. Hundreds of ...