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An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a greenhouse in Sydney.
The corpse flower at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden—nicknamed Putricia, a combination of putrid and Patricia —is drawing an enormous crowd. People are waiting three hours to see her bloom and get a whiff, with 20,000 fans having visited the plant so far.
Visitors are invited to come to smell the corpse flower’s rotten perfume during extended opening hours at the botanic garden before the flower withers and dies.
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The ultra-stinky Putricia the Corpse flower has finally bloomed at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, treating visitors to its repugnant smell for the first time in 15 years.
A heavy metal chain locks the bodies of several “corpse flowers” (officially known as amorphophallus titanum) inside a greenhouse. One is set to bloom later this week in a rare event that will release a necrotic perfume. Want to unlock unlimited news? Read more award-winning journalism from as little as 50c a day. Get started
The specimen, nicknamed Putricia - a combination of 'putrid' and 'Patricia' - is famous for emitting an odour likened to rotting flesh.