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Worth the wait: Rare, stinky ‘corpse flower’ draws crowds at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
The Amorphophallus gigas, known as the "corpse flower," bloomed for just three days, prompting residents to brave frigid ...
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This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
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Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
“That was disgusting.” The rare Amorphophallus gigas – a relative of the Amorphophallus titanum, commonly known as the corpse flower – has bloomed for the first time since arriving in ...
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What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...
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Rare corpse flower expected to bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden this week
NEW YORK — A foul-smelling corpse flower is expected to bloom this week at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The BBG posted on its Instagram Thursday, saying the plant is starting to faintly smell.