Rare and Stinky 'Corpse Flower' Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
The air was thick with both anticipation and a pungent smell as visitors flocked to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden last weekend for a chance to see a rare flower bloom. The Amorphophallus gigas—a cousin to Amorphophallus titanum,
Rare corpse flower greets the public with putrid bloom in New York
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.
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which resembles that of rotting flesh.
Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, crowds drawn to its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
A rare corpse flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours Saturday to get a whiff of its unique scent.
Have You Seen This? New Yorkers hoping to get whiff of 'rotten corpse' flower
A bloom of a flower known as the 'corpse flower' in New York has attracted huge crowds hoping to get a glimpse and sniff of the rare event.
Blooming corpse flower unleashes foul ‘rotten flesh’ stench at Brooklyn Botanical Garden in historical first
The monumental blooming marks the first time an Amorphophallus gigas — a plant native to Sumatra and lovingly nicknamed the corpse flower — has opened its petals at the Crown Heights garden. It is the very first of its kind to ever bloom in all of New York City, the garden proudly confirmed.
‘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 different.
A flower blooms in Brooklyn, and it reeks of rotting flesh
The corpse flower, which is native to Indonesia and known scientifically as Amorphophallus gigas, grabs headlines at gardens across the world whenever it blooms. As it readies to unfurl its petals, the flower releases a natural odor meant to attract scavenging beetles that eat dead animals.
Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn garden; crowds drawn to its 'stinky cheese, foot smell'
NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent. The bloom, named "Smelliott," emits a scent to attract pollinating insects.
‘Stinky cheese, some poop smells’: See why New Yorkers are flocking to this rare ‘corpse flower’
It’s not a flower you’d likely buy on Valentine’s Day but the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s rare amorphophallus gigas plant is in bloom and visitors want a whiff – even if it does smell “like a rotting corpse.
What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
A 'perfectly putrid' corpse flower is drawing crowds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it blooms for the first time since its ...
This rare plant smells horrible, but people can’t wait to get a whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh.
5 facts about corpse flowers that don’t stink
Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed Putricia has been blooming for the past week ...
Sydneysiders wait up to three hours to catch a sniff of rare corpse flower
It's been 15 years since the foul-smelling flower showed its petals in Sydney, but the rare Amorphophallus titanum – also ...
A stinky new 'rotting flesh' plant is in bloom at Indiana University's greenhouse
The smaller cousin of the infamous "Wally" corpse flower, the devil's tongue also emits a rotten odor. But unlike Wally, this ...
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Devil's Tongue stinking up the biology department greenhouse
The Amorphophallus konjac — better known as the Devil’s Tongue — is currently blooming. And smelling up the area around it.