If you’re out buying flowers for your sweetie this Valentine’s Day, you’ll want to make sure you avoid the stinky corpse ...

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 ...

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Some 27,000 people showed up and waited up to three-and-a-half hours to see - and smell - the full spectacle of the corpse flower, nicknamed “Putricia”, unfurling at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens ...

Patience - and strong stomachs - paid off for visitors at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where a rare corpse flower finally bloomed, releasing its famously putrid stench. Gardener Chris Sprindis has ...

Sydney's corpse flower Putricia is on display at the Royal Botanic Garden. It will only bloom for about 24 hours before dying. Thousands of people are watching Putricia's live stream on YouTube.

For the first time in 15 years, the world is captivated by the rare blooming of a stinky corpse flower in Sydney, affectionately named "Putricia." Known for its foul odour resembling rotting garbage, ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --New Yorkers lined up for hours outside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to catch a glimpse -- and a whiff -- of the facility's rare blooming corpse flower. The Amorphophallus gigas ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A putrid-smelling species of flower commonly known as a "corpse flower" is causing quite a stink at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Affectionately named "Smelliot" by garden staff, this ...

This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...