This plant, known as a corpseflower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpseflower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpseflower ...
Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpseflower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest. But to fans ...
NEW YORK — A rare corpseflower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent. Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for ...