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Tom Davidson

Rare ‘corpse flower’ blooming in Australia draws thousands to smell ‘rotting odour’

The so-called corpse flower in bloom

(Picture: botanicgardenssa/Instagram)

The rare blooming of a ‘corpse flower’ in Adelaide is drawing thousands of visitors keen to take smell the bizarre plant’s distinctive rotting flesh odour.

Adelaide Botanic Gardens in South Australia has been flooded with visitors after its rare Titum Arum bloomed overnight on Sunday.

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