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On Wednesday, some 3,000 people were online watching "Putricia," as the plant has been ... The obsession is understandable. Sydney has been waiting for 15 years for a flowering at the Royal ...
A corpse flower dubbed Putricia has finally bloomed at Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney. The plant, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, has the biggest, smelliest flower spike in the world.
Plant enthusiasts across the country have gathered to watch the exciting event which is the opening of Putricia, Sydney’s corpse flower. Although I am obsessed with the phenomenon that is the ...
Thank you, and sweet Putricia dreams. It’s happened! A horticulturalist at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney has told Herald photographer Janie Barrett that Putricia has finally reached her full bloom.
Putricia has already attracted more than 16,000 visitors since being open to the public from Friday. Ailsa Piper, a Sydney writer, was at the nearby Art Gallery of NSW when she spied the growing ...
Putricia the big stinky corpse flower which bloomed at the botanic gardens in Sydney on Thursday has been visited by almost 20,000 people. Almost a million more have followed the plant's journey ...
As excitement grew in Sydney about the unfolding bloom, garden staff erected crowd barriers giving the Victorian greenhouse the air of a rock concert. Fans trod a red carpet to view Putricia from ...
She may smell like rotting flesh but “Putricia”, the internet-famous corpse flower, has been the centre of attention at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney over the last two days. The rare plant ...
A specimen has not bloomed in Sydney since 2010. As the long-awaited unfurling of Putricia’s petals began on Thursday afternoon, queues lengthened and visitors waited as long as three hours.
Popping up on my FYP, all three meters of her, was Putricia the Corpse Flower, the Botanic Gardens of Sydney’s Araceae It girl. To the scientific community, Putricia is known as amorphophallus ...