New Scientist12d
New Scientist recommends the corpse flower at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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 ...
USA Today29d
What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
“That was disgusting.” Amorphophallus gigas − Smelliot − is so rare only nine other botanic gardens are listed as having one, according to Botanic Gardens Conservation Internationa ...
Would You Stand in Line to Sniff the World’s Most Disgusting Flower?
Thousands of people bore witness to the rare and odorous blooming of Putricia the corpse flower in Sydney, Australia, this week.
CNN29d
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
“That was disgusting.” 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 ...
Seattle Times29d
This rare plant smells horrible, but people can’t wait to get a whiff
This week, yet another foul scent has entered the smellscape, but in this case, New Yorkers are flocking to experience it: the blooming of an Amorphophallus gigas, aka a corpse flower, at the ...
UPI28d
Rare corpse flower greets the public with putrid bloom in New York
The Amorphophallus gigas plant, better known as a corpse flower, was obtained as a seedling from a nursery in Malaysia seven years ago and started its first bloom Thursday night. Advertisement The ...
CBS News29d
Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, crowds drawn to its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for the Amorphophallus gigas, or corpse flower, the BBG received seven years ago as a seedling from an orchid nursery in Malaysia. It's only one of four ...