When hordes turn out to see – and smell – the blooming of a flower, it says something important about the human spirit.

A putrid-smelling flower that has become an online sensation drew a crowd of 27,000 people wanting to a whiff of the odour.

Online excitement over the rare blooming of an enormous and putrid-smelling flower in Sydney has highlighted a ...

Sydney's corpse flower attracts thousands of people with its rare blossom and its stench of rotting flesh, offering a ...

Hand-pollination of the pungent corpse flower results in hundreds of seeds that will be sent across the world to help ...

The air was thick with both anticipation and a pungent smell as visitors flocked to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden last weekend ...

Thousands have waited hours to catch a glimpse of the bloom of a corpse flower at Sydney's Botanic Gardens. The plant is ...

A 'perfectly putrid' corpse flower is drawing crowds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as it blooms for the first time since its ...

One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before ...

Corpse flower blooms are often inconsistent. Many will bloom once a decade, though sometimes even more frequently.

Across the globe in Australia, a Amorphophallus titanum corpse flower nicknamed Putricia has been blooming for the past week ...

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