Sydney's corpse flower Putricia is on display at the Royal Botanic Garden. It will only bloom for about 24 hours before dying. Thousands of people are watching Putricia's live stream on YouTube.
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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A rare blooming of a corpse flower, affectionately nicknamed Putricia, has drawn thousands of visitors to Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden.
The corpse flower - nicknamed “Putricia” - began unfurling at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden for the first time in 15 years on Thursday afternoon. The rare titan arum, a type of carrion ...
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The ultra-stinky Putricia the Corpse flower has finally bloomed at ... prompting scores of people to line up behind the velvet rope and see the infamous plant – the first to reveal itself ...
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In the wild, the stench of a corpse flower is meant to attract thousands of flies to pollinate itself. Flies swarm to Putricia.Credit: At Botanic Gardens in Sydney, staff will extract pollen ...
Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden became the center of fascination as an endangered corpse flower, infamous for its foul odor and rare bloom, captivated thousands of visitors. The strikingly unique ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga ...
Ailsa Piper, a Sydney writer, was at the nearby Art Gallery of NSW when she spied the growing line for the corpse flower by chance and was enticed into the gardens by enthusiastic staff.