A rare plant, known as flower-cadaver, flourished in Sydney on Friday for the first time in over a decade, exhaling a odor similar to the rotten meat and attracting thousands of people who made a line to smell.
Last week, curiously visited the nicknamed Peturícia species-a junction of “Putrida” and “Patrícia”-in the city’s Royal Botanical Garden, which was open until almost midnight on Thursday to receive the crowd.
The scientific name of the-flower is AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANIUM. She is named Bunga Bangkai in Indonesia, where she is found in nature. The giant flower has cinned carmesim petals and can measure more than one meter, with a peduncle up to 3 meters.
The plant usually does not bloom more than once every few years and lasts only about one day. Sydney’s showed her face for the last time in 2010.
When the Putrational Petals began to open on Thursday afternoon, queues up to three hours formed to see her.
“The fact that it is so big, of taking so long and its smell really attracts people,” said Sydney Botanical Garden Chief Scientist Brett Summerell.
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“It’s like the odor of a dead skunk.”
Sydney’s resident, Rebecca McGee-Collett waited 90 minutes to see the flower, which said he had the odor of “hot trash.”
A Live of the plant accumulated about one million hits.
