The famously foul-smelling titan arum, affectionately nicknamed Smellanie, has bloomed at Adelaide Botanic Garden, drawing crowds eager to witness one of nature’s rarest and strangest spectacles.
Adelaide Botanic Garden’s titan arum, known as the corpse flower, is about to bloom — unleashing a powerful odour, drawing huge crowds, and marking a major conservation milestone more than 20 years in the making.
This bloom event is extremely limited, and the first 24 hours is when the smell is at its strongest.
One of the world’s most notoriously foul-smelling plant species is set to bloom at Adelaide Botanic Garden in the coming days.
One of the world’s largest flowers, famous for a stench likened to rotting flesh, has begun its stinky reveal at Adelaide Botanic Garden’s Bicentennial Conservatory.
One of the world’s largest flowers, famous for a stench likened to rotting flesh, has begun its stinky reveal at Adelaide Botanic Garden’s Bicentennial Conservatory.
Get ready, Adelaide, the corpse flower is making another appearance...
Be quick! You only have one day to see one of the world's largest flowers in bloom!