Smells like ‘wet socks’ and ‘dead possums’, corpse flower blooms for first time in 10 years
There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their ...
Gardeners warned to never deadhead hydrangeas in February - here's why
Hydrangeas are a popular garden flower, but gardeners are being warned not to be too eager to deadhead them - it could have ...
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This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
a.k.a. a corpse flower, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The rare plant smells of rotting flesh to attract pollinators like beetles and flies that are typically drawn to dead animals. It only ...
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New Scientist recommends the corpse flower at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...
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What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
"I liken the smell to a dead possum," Sydney Botanic Gardens chief scientist Brett Summerell said. Sydney resident Rebecca McGee-Collett, who waited 90 minutes to see the flower on Thursday ...
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A Stinky Pilgrimage To The Corpse Flower, With Notes Of Rat, Sweat, And Cheese
Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful ...
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Corpse flower blooms at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens for the first time
"It started smelling like wet laundry, dirty socks, dead rat ... A second flower is currently blooming at the Sydney Botanic Gardens but will not be displayed to the public and instead be kept ...