You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly ...

with a putrid stench emanating from its 135 centimetre-tall flower spike. ANBG acting nursery manager Carol Dale said it usually took corpse flowers seven to 10 years to bloom for the first time.

The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name amorphophallus titanium, bloomed for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra’s Australian National Botanic Gardens on Saturday and was ...