'Hot garbage': Australians react to smell of 'corpse flower' in bloom
Dubbed Putricia, the titan arum plant emits a putrid smell likened to "something rotting" or "hot garbage" for 24 hours after ...
After 7-year wait, corpse flower Putricia blooms in Sydney
The bloom has attracted up to 20,000 admirers who filed past, hoping to experience the smell for themselves, with some ...
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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 ...
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Thousands flock to smell plant that reeks of dead rat, rotting rubbish
She may smell like rotting flesh but “Putricia”, the internet-famous corpse flower, has been the centre of attention at the ...
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The value of smell
WHILE browsing Foreign Policy's 'World Brief' by Alexandra Sharp, I came across an article that caught my attention. It was ...
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The night I accidentally became a corpse flower’s bedside manservant
Open on Siemon’s phone is the corpse flower Kama Sutra: an academic paper called On the thermogenesis of the Titan arum. The paper stipulates when Putricia will hit peak heat and putridity.
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Stinky bloom of 'corpse flower' enthrals thousands
Putricia is one of several titan arums in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, which last saw one bloom 15 years ago. But there have been other corpse flower blooms across Australia in recent years ...