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Stink Flower Blooms Again

Monday, October 11, 2004

This time Australia is the lucky locale. Hundreds of peopleare lining up in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens to get aglimpse of the rarely-blooming Titan Arum, also known as the"corpse flower," which has the world's largest and worstsmelling blooms.

The smell is described as something like rotting flesh andits flowers can have a diameter...

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World's Stinkiest Flower

Monday, May 6, 2002

The world's biggest and sinkiest flower has burst into flower at London's Kew gardens. The huge crimson-colored plant, known as Amorphophallus titanium, smells like a mixture of excrement and rotting flesh. It also has a distinctive look, with giant red petals bursting out of a tall, phallic-like stem.

The vast A. titanium is currently...

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