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.
Horticulturalist John Sandham said what made this flower more unique was that it came from a cutting rather than a seed."What this flower is this time around is actually a 10-year-old plant that we produced from a leaf cutting," he said.
Horticultural curator at the gardens Matt Coulter said the flower looked its best and smelt the strongest on the first day and would wither within about 48 hours. For those wanting to catch a whiff of the strange smell, today would be the final day to do so, Mr Coulter said. "It has this real dead rat sort of smell, but also [smells like] fermentation, rotten cheese. A lot of people think it smells like dead fish, it has real complex aromas — it's very fascinating," he said.
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