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If your kids were captivated by Putricia the corpse flower (we can’t blame them), Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden will be hosting an Alchemy of a Rainforest Exhibition to educate curious minds ...
The horticulturists in Sydney compared the volume of focus to the 2000 Olympics in the city. The Australians, with a typical Aussie love of keeping it punchy, called the flower Putricia (putrid ...
Sydney's corpse flower Putricia is on display at the Royal Botanic Garden. It will only bloom for about 24 hours before dying. Thousands of people are watching Putricia's live stream on YouTube.
Thousands have waited hours to catch a glimpse of the bloom of a corpse flower at Sydney's Botanic Gardens. The plant is drawing in crowds for both its rarity – it last bloomed 15 years ago ...
The specimen is nicknamed Putricia – a combination of “putrid ... "I liken the smell to a dead possum," Sydney Botanic Gardens chief scientist Brett Summerell said. Sydney resident Rebecca ...
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 ...
Behind closed doors and with the livestream switched off, the collapsing Putricia has been fertilised.Credit: Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney The short-lived pollen of the botanical beast was bound ...
A rare blooming of a corpse flower, affectionately nicknamed Putricia, has drawn thousands of visitors to Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden. The plant, known scientifically as amorphophallus titanum ...
Putricia-mania builds 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is now officially the year of Putricia, the world’s most foul-swelling flower. Thousands of people have flocked to the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia, to see and sniff the rare ...