Smells like ‘wet socks’ and ‘dead possums’, corpse flower blooms for first time in 10 years
There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their ...
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Researchers Analyze the Surprising Smells of Ancient Egyptian Mummies
The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...
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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 fascinating lesson.
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A Stinky Pilgrimage To The Corpse Flower, With Notes Of Rat, Sweat, And Cheese
Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful ...
5 facts about corpse flowers that don’t stink
Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed Putricia has been blooming for the past week ...
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This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
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A plant in the ‘corpse flower’ family is blooming in Brooklyn: What does it smell like?
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WPIX) – If you’ve ever wondered what rotting flesh smells like, you can take a trip to Brooklyn, New York, to find out. The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous “corpse ...
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Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, drawing crowds to sniff its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
A rare corpse flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this weekend, and people waited in line for hours to get a whiff ...
Corpse flower: Plant with 'rotting flesh smell' blooms in Australia
The corpse flower blooms for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Australia holds its nose for its third rancid bloom of a rare corpse plant in 3 months
A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...
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Researcher uncovers just how much Sydney's corpse flower Putricia smells like human remains
A researcher who studies human decomposition has analysed samples of Putricia the corpse flower during its bloom in January ...
Australia holds its nose for its 3rd rancid bloom of a rare corpse plant in 3 months
A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...