This is why people refer to it as the "corpse flower" or "carcass flower." This bloom period where you can see the full flower head — called an inflorescence — lasts just a few days before the ...

a dead carcass to ... get all the flies to come and interact with it, pick up pollen, and then take that pollen to another flower that it might investigate due to its smell,” said Lauren Greig ...

First there was Moo Deng, then there was Pesto the Penguin – but have you met Sydney's Putricia, the corpse flower? To the scientific community, the Botanic Gardens of Sydney’s corpse flower is known ...