Science Daily23d
Botanic Gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction
The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...
CNN23d
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which ...
WPRI 1225d
What’s Happening: Roger Williams Park Botanical Center
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Winter is a great time to visit The Roger Williams Park Botanical Center which is New England’s largest glasshouse display garden. The local gem is tucked inside ...
New York Post25d
Blooming corpse flower unleashes foul ‘rotten flesh’ stench at Brooklyn Botanical Garden in historical first
Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a ...
The New York Times25d
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 ...
CBS News23d
Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, crowds drawn to its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent. Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation26d
Putricia the putrid corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Garden basks in internet fame
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 ...
The Australian Financial Review26d
Corpse flower ‘Putricia’ begins long-awaited stinky bloom
The corpse flower - nicknamed “Putricia” - began unfurling at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden for the first time in 15 years on Thursday afternoon. The rare titan arum, a type of carrion ...
The Scotsman22d
Scotland's botanic gardens launch emergency appeal as cost of damage from Storm Eowyn runs to six figures
When Simon Milne woke up on Saturday morning, he braced himself for what he would find when he saw in person the aftermath of Storm Eowyn on Scotland’s Royal Botanic Gardens. Gusts of up to 82 ...
The Scotsman23d
Tallest tree in Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh felled by Storm Éowyn
The tallest tree in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) has been felled by Storm Éowyn - a 95ft (29m) high deodar cedar which was planted 166 years ago. The head of the organisation said ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation10d
Corpse flower blooms at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens for the first time
An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...
Sydney Morning Herald26d
Corpse flower as it happened: ‘Putricia’ in full bloom at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens
More than 16,000 people have already visited Putricia since Friday, and the Botanic Gardens will stay open until midnight tonight to accommodate visitors who want to enjoy the stink in all its glory.