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Crowd gets whiff of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's corpse flower
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Crowd gets whiff of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's corpse flower

Rob Beschizza
Feb 03, 2025
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This Amorphophallus gigas is the United States Botanic Garden in D.C. Copyright (c) 2019 Gerry Bishop/Shutterstock.

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Amorphophallus gigas, a close relative of the famed corpse flower and apparently plenty stinksome in its own right, has bloomed for the first time since it was established there in 2018. The carrion scent attra…

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