The Associated Press on MSN11d
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CBS New York on MSN11d
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10d
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 ...
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 ...
earth8d
Corpse flowers smell like death, but thousands rush to see them bloom
Sydney's corpse flower attracts thousands of people with its rare blossom and its stench of rotting flesh, offering a ...
The New York Times13d
This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
a.k.a. a corpse flower, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The rare plant smells of rotting flesh to attract pollinators like beetles and flies that are typically drawn to dead animals. It only ...
WFMZ-TV4d
A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
People view an endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink, which is about to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.
USA Today11d
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 ...
News Tribune13d
Thousands line up to smell plant that reeks of gym socks, rotting garbage
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 ...
CNN11d
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
It was the first time in 15 years that a corpse flower has bloomed at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. That plant’s flower was also spotted in December, when it was 10 inches (25 centimeters ...