A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time in more than a decade, emitting an odour likened to rotting flesh and delighting thousands who queued for a whiff.

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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.

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

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

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

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The rare unfurling of an endangered plant that emits the smell of decaying flesh drew hundreds of devoted fans to a greenhouse in Sydney yesterday. Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum – or bunga bangkai in Indonesia,

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 get a whiff, with 20,000 fans having visited the plant so far.

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.