‘Rotting' corpse flower in rare bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden for a limited time
Most of the time, people don’t make a pilgrimage to see (and smell) something that smells like rotting meat. But this case is ...
The New York Times6d
This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
Stinky bloom of 'corpse flower' enthrals thousands
An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is blooming in Australia - and captivating the internet ...
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5 facts about corpse flowers that don’t stink
The plant arrived in Brooklyn from Malaysia in 2018 and this is the first time it is blooming, but it will not last long. Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower ...
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Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, crowds drawn to its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic ... It bloomed for the first time Thursday night into Friday. It normally takes 7-10 years for the first bloom, which doesn ...
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
Visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are lining up to see — and smell — a rare bloom at that has the scent of a rotting corpse.
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Rare and Stinky ‘Corpse Flower’ Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ... commonly known as a corpse flower—is native to the ...
USA Today3d
What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
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 ...
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Corpse flower: Plant with 'deadly' stench pulls huge crowds for rare bloom in Sydney
People have queued for hours at a Sydney greenhouse to get a whiff of the infamous corpse flower, as it bloomed for the first time in years. The sizeable flower, officially called the ...
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A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest. But to fans ...
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Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
The rare Amorphophallus gigas – a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower – has bloomed for the first time since arriving in Brooklyn in 2018. Native to ...