A rare corpse flower, Amorphophallus Titanum, famed for its size and distinctive smell, has bloomed in a private garden in ...

Known under the scientific name Amorphophallus titanum, corpse flowers are rare, with fewer than 1,000 left in the wild, the ...

The flower, a native of Indonesian island Sumatra, could bloom again in another two to six years, depending on how much energy the corm, or base – which is about the size of a basketball and weighs ...

to catch a glimpse of what's once-in-a-decade occurrence -- the blooming 'corpse flower'. Thousands of people have lined up to get a glimpse of a rare flower that smells like rotting flesh and is ...

This rare bloom lasts only 24 to 48 hours. People lined up to see the flower. Picture: Brad Fleet Geelong Botanic Gardens co-ordinator Kellee Reissinger said the corpse flowers normally bloomed in ...

Julie Montan and Raven Montan visited the gardens just to see the rare flower and catch a whiff ... There are around eight corpse flowers in the Botanic gardens collection, however there is ...

The unusual odor of the titan arum, commonly called the corpse flower because its scent is reminiscent of rotting flesh, draws crowds of curious visitors to greenhouses around the world during its ...

The corpse flower is closing but there is still a steady stream of visitors taking a look. Picture: Alan Barber The flowers was still ... near and far to see the rare flower.