Plant enthusiasts across the country have gathered to watch the exciting event which is the opening of Putricia, Sydney’s corpse flower. Although I am obsessed with the phenomenon that is the ...
A corpse flower dubbed Putricia has finally bloomed at Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney. The plant, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, has the biggest, smelliest flower spike in the world.
In the wild, the stench of a corpse flower is meant to attract thousands of flies to pollinate itself. Flies swarm to Putricia.Credit: At Botanic Gardens in Sydney, staff will extract pollen ...
The corpse flower at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden—nicknamed Putricia, a combination of putrid and Patricia—is drawing an enormous crowd. People are waiting three hours to see her bloom and ...