Rare corpse flower set to bloom at garden centre for less than 24 hours
The powerful scent of rotting flesh is set to waft through the air at a Melbourne garden centre to the delight of hundreds of ...
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Rafflesia: This Corpse Flower Reeks of Death
Rafflesia is one of the most bizarre and fascinating plants in the world, known for its massive size and putrid stench. Often called the "corpse flower," it emits a strong odor of rotting flesh to ...
Foul-smelling corpse orchid highlights Powell Gardens’ Orchid Delirium
A rare corpse orchid has bloomed at Powell Gardens. The flower is not known so much for its beauty as its stench.
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Rare floral bloom is happening in Springfield, Mo.
This plant has a strong odor. Growers say it mimics the scent of rotting flesh to attract pollinators. It’s similar to the famous corpse flower. Despite its eerie smell, the plant is completely ...
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When Doctor Who finally dies, the BBC will have blood on its hands
Scotland, detached from a rotting UK corpse, would cope in the same way ... football and rugby crowds have adopted a folk song. Flower of Scotland is certainly a good and popular song but it ...
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A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
SYDNEY (AP) — The rare unfurling of an endangered plant that emits the smell of decaying ... bloom -– and a fragrance evoking gym socks and rotting garbage. Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
Decades of acid rain generated by power-plant emissions have devastated the ... "This is how you can imagine the Permian extinction," he said. "Rotting biomass." "It's not easy to kill so many ...