From gardens to beaches: Ethel Carrick’s dazzling Australian sketches
They were both painted in 1908 on the English-born artist’s first visit to Australia, as she accompanied her husband and ...
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Corpse flowers smell like death, but thousands rush to see them bloom
Sydney's corpse flower attracts thousands of people with its rare blossom and its stench of rotting flesh, offering a ...
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Rare and Stinky ‘Corpse Flower’ Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney
People lined up to see—and smell—the blossoms of two pungent plant species, which only bloom for a short time every few years ...
Botanic gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction, say researchers
A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the ...
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Botanic Gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction
The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers.
What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
A 'perfectly putrid' corpse flower is drawing crowds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it blooms for the first time since its ...
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before ...
What to know about the corpse flower, which smells like rotting meat
Corpse flower blooms are often inconsistent. Many will bloom once a decade, though sometimes even more frequently.
The curtains have closed on Putricia. Here’s what she looks like now
John Siemon should have been on hand as curtains fell on the live-streamed corpse flower named Putricia, which drew 1.7 ...
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Putricia the putrid corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Garden basks in internet fame
Thousands of people have queued in the Royal Botanic Gardens to catch a whiff of a rare blooming corpse flower nicknamed ...
After 7-year wait, corpse flower Putricia blooms in Sydney
The bloom has attracted up to 20,000 admirers who filed past, hoping to experience the smell for themselves, with some ...
A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...