A rare flower with a pungent odour that has been likened to decaying flesh, rotten eggs and sewage has bloomed in Australia - the third such flowering in recent months.

Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed Putricia has been blooming for the past week at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. This is the first time in 15 years that ...

All 42 known species of the parasitic plant Rafflesia, often known as the corpse flower, are endangered due to runaway ...

Known for its smell of putrid, rotting flesh, a Corpse Flower is blooming for the first time in 15 years at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney. The flower has the biggest, smelliest flower-spike in the ...

which resembles that of rotting flesh. “It smells like feet, cheese and rotten meat. It just smelled like the worst possible combination of smells,” Elijah Blades said. “That was disgusting.” ...

A rare flower with a pungent odour that has been likened to decaying flesh, rotten eggs and sewage has bloomed in Australia - the third such flowering in recent months. The corpse flower, also known ...

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 ...

But stick around long enough – or, if you dare, get closer – and it becomes unmistakably rotten and corpse ... odor that beckons flesh-loving insects to its flowers in the heart of the plant.

which resembles that of rotting flesh. “It smells like feet, cheese and rotten meat. It just smelled like the worst possible combination of smells,” Elijah Blades said. “That was disgusting.” ...

A flower of a different kind is on display at Lauritzen Gardens for those looking for an activity for you and your valentine.