35K views · 126 reactions | Sydney’s stinkiest flower has finally started to bloom in the Royal Botanic Garden, but you’ll have to be quick if you want to catch a whiff of ‘Putricia’. Read more: 7news.link/4awdkF5 Download the 7NEWS app: 7news.link/7newsapp #7NEWS | 7NEWS Sydney | Facebook

What’s that smell? It’s our corpse plant! For the first time ever at the Toronto Zoo, a corpse plant (Amorphophallus titanum) is projected to start to bloom in the next two weeks. This species only blooms for 8-36 hours and this is the first time this species has bloomed in the GTA, and the fifth time one has bloomed within Canada! Grown from seed, it can take six to ten years for a plant to produce its first flower, after which it can take several more years for it to bloom again. Once we confi