5 days ago · People gather around a corpse flower that begins to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 23, 2025, before another has opened in the Australian capital Canberra in the nation’s third such unusual flowering in recent months. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) ... MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A rare bloom with a pungent odor ...

Jan 24, 2025 · Found only in the rainforests of western Sumatra, the rare and endangered Corpse Flower plant is renowned for the smell of putrid, rotting flesh that surround the flowers when it blooms. People have described the smell as like wet socks, hot cat food, or rotting possum flesh.

4 days ago · A corpse flower begins to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 23, 2025, before another has opened in the Australian capital Canberra in the nation’s third such ...

6 days ago · An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...

4 days ago · The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, bloomed for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens on Saturday ...

Jan 23, 2025 · A man uses a mop to soak up water from the plants where an endangered plant known as the “corpse flower” for its putrid stink, is on display at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

4 days ago · People gather around a corpse flower that begins to bloom at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Jan. 23, 2025, before another has opened in the Australian capital Canberra in the ...

Jan 22, 2025 · An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is blooming in Australia - and captivating the internet in the process, with thousands already tuned in to a livestream...

Jan 28, 2025 · Australians have a fascination with corpse flowers, or Amorphophallus titanum — an endangered plant endemic to Sumatra known for emitting a pungent stench to attract insects on the rare occasion it flowers.

Each flower lives for just a few days before they wither and die, making it a rare sighting as only a few people get to see a fully developed Corpse Flower bloom. The largest flower in the world found only in the rainforests of western Sumatra will bloom in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens this weekend. Picture: Getty.