Rare corpse flower set to bloom at garden centre for less than 24 hours
The powerful scent of rotting flesh is set to waft through the air at a Melbourne garden centre to the delight of hundreds of ...
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A Composting Fly Could Significantly Reduce Organic Waste at the Smithsonian Institution
An innovative and low-cost project aims to bio-convert food scraps into fertilizer, animal feed and extractable oil using the ...
Fauna & Flora International8d
Wild allies – Eight extraordinary examples of mutualism in nature
Parasitism: Rafflesia, the world’s largest flower, takes water and nutrients from the host plant it grows on.
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Lauritzen Gardens says voodoo lily is in full bloom, offering an interesting display for Valentine's Day
THE VOODOO LILIES, ACTUALLY, THE LITTLE SISTER TO THE. CORPSE PLANT, AND THEY HAVE ABOUT THIS ONE IS IN FULL BLOOM. WE HAVE ABOUT ANOTHER THREE WEEKS OF BLOOM OUT OF IT. AND AND THE MORE SUNLIGHT ...
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A Stinky Pilgrimage To The Corpse Flower, With Notes Of Rat, Sweat, And Cheese
Because management was hesitant to punch a hole in the sheetrock to retrieve it, the corpse dried out slowly ... closer to smell it again. A. gigas cycles in and out of dormancy. Every 18 months or so ...
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Smells like ‘wet socks’ and ‘dead possums’, corpse flower blooms for first time in 10 years
Such was the case in Canberra, Australia, where a corpse flower bloomed for the first time since it was planted a decade earlier. Visitors to the Australian National Botanic Gardens describe the ...
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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 ...
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Canberra's corpse flower defies expectations, blooms for the first time
The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum ... They produce only a single leaf or a single flower spike at a time, falling dormant between each cycle. It’s believed Canberra’s flower came to the ANBG ...
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Australia holds nose for third rancid bloom of rare corpse plant in three months
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, also known by ...
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Australia holds nose for third rancid bloom of rare corpse plant in three months
The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name amorphophallus titanum, or titan arum, bloomed for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra’s Australian National Botanic Gardens on ...