Australia holds its nose for its third rancid bloom of a rare corpse plant in 3 months
Despite being grown in different environments the famous corpse flowers are blooming one after another.
A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such extraordinary flowering in as many months. The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name amorphophallus titanium, bloomed for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra’s Australian National Botanic Gardens on Saturday and was closing on Monday, staff said.
Stench of death.