it feel a little queasy. the endangered titan arum or corpse plant has just bloomed for the first time in years, but has a smell that s been likened to dead rats. matt coulter is a horticulture curator at the adelaide botanic gardens and told me more about how popular the plant has been. we ve had cases people have been lined up for 2.5 hours to actually come and see it and to smell it, yeah, it s quite an amazing plant. but, yeah, it s quite interesting that people want to actually come and smell something that s quite vile. so how strong is this smell and from how far away can you smell it? basically, it only itjust only smells for two days and the first night that it starts to open is when it s at its strongest. and the interesting thing about the smell, it actually pulses, so it s notjust the smell around the flower, it actually pushes it away from the flower as far as possible. so as people were lining up to come down to see the flower, they could smell it when they were pro
run off two weeks. now to a tourist attraction that s been luring in thousands of visitors in adelaide australia, despite making those that see it feel a little queasy. the endangered titan arum, or corpse plant, hasjust bloomed for the first time in years, but has a smell that s been likened to dead rats. sounds lovely, doesn t it? matt coulter is a horticulture curator at the adelaide botanic gardens and told me more about how popular the plant has been. people have been lined up for 2.5 hours to actually come and see it and to smell it, yeah, it s an amazing plant. but, yeah, it s quite interesting that people want to actually come and smell something that s quite vile. so, how strong is this smell and from how far away can you smell it? so basically, it only itjust only smells for two days and the first night that it starts to open is when it s at its strongest. and the interesting thing about the smell, it actually pulses, so it s notjust
curator at the adelaide botanic gardens and told me more about how popular the plant has been. we ve had cases people have been lined up for 2.5 hours to actually come and see it and to smell it, yeah, it s an amazing plant. but, yeah, it s quite interesting that people want to actually come and smell something that s quite vile. how strong is this smell and from how far away can you smell it? basically, it only itjust only smells for two days and the first night that it starts to open is when it s at its strongest. and the interesting thing about the smell, it actually pulses, it s notjust the smell around the flower, it actually pushes it away from the flower as far as possible. as people were lining up to come down to see the flower, they can smell it when they were probably 100m away. you can actually smell it outside our conservatory probably more than you could inside, so it s quite remarkable, actually, how it pushes away from the flower. yes, we re seeing some brilliant pic
A corpse flower has bloomed at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens with thousands of visitors queuing up to catch a glimpse of the rare flower and get a whiff of its rotting flesh aroma.