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Second-generation corpse flower, grown from leaf cutting, blooms at Adelaide Botanic Gardens

The Adelaide Botanic Gardens is being inundated with visitors with some reporting an hour-and-a-half wait to catch a glimpse — or rather a whiff, of a corpse flower that bloomed at the weekend.

The Titan Arum, more commonly known as the corpse flower due to its rotting flesh smell, usually takes 10 years to flower from seed and then only blooms every three-to-five years after that.

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