A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gardens have nicknamed the corpse flower “Putricia” after its sickening perfume, described by chief scientist Brett Summerell as akin to the rotting flesh of a possum, wet socks and cat vomit.

A corpse flower dubbed Putricia has finally bloomed at Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney. The plant, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, has the biggest, smelliest flower spike in the world.

The corpse flower has finally bloomed at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, treating visitors to its repugnant smell for the first time in 15 years. The towering green plant – officially called the ...

Putricia has been placed behind a velvet rope in Sydney's botanic gardens An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is blooming in Australia - and captivating the ...

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 ...

Last week, horticulturalists at the Royal Botanic Gardens announced that one of its rarest plants was preparing to flower for the first time in 15 years. The appropriately named corpse flower, due to ...

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) has unveiled a first look at the 2025 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, “Gardens of Tomorrow.” A Jan. 16 press conference featured never-before-seen artistic ...

Belle’s vision is reflected in the present garden, and the Mary-named flowers were chosen as a way to honor Mary and help people discover the spiritual as they spent time in the garden. The garden was ...

Hold your noses: One of the world's stinkiest flowers, which smells like deceased, rotting flesh, is about to bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Even though this might sound like the stuff of ...