An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a greenhouse in Sydney.

The ultra-stinky Putricia the Corpse flower has finally bloomed at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, treating visitors to its repugnant smell for the first time in 15 years.

A heavy metal chain locks the bodies of several “corpse flowers” (officially known as amorphophallus titanum) inside a greenhouse. One is set to bloom later this week in a rare event that will release a necrotic perfume. Want to unlock unlimited news? Read more award-winning journalism from as little as 50c a day. Get started

Sydney’s budding botanists and horticultural hobbyists are on the edge of their seats, waiting in anticipation to find out if today is the day one of the world’s rarest flowers blooms right here in the Harbour City.

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With the Socceroos’ next FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Indonesia (Sydney) and China (Hangzhou) being played in March, Ryan needs game time to enhance his chances of being selected by Popovic ...

With the Socceroos’ next FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Indonesia (Sydney) and China (Hangzhou) being played in March, Ryan needs game time to enhance his chances of being selected by Popovic ...

A rare and revolting spectacle has drawn tens of thousands to Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, where a foul-smelling flower has finally bloomed.

Visitors are invited to come smell the corpse flower’s rotten perfume during extended opening hours at the Botanic Gardens before the flower withers and dies.

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