{"id":21854,"date":"2025-01-26T19:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australians-react-to-smell-of-plant-in-bloom\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T19:25:16","slug":"australians-react-to-smell-of-plant-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australians-react-to-smell-of-plant-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians react to smell of plant in bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Almost 20,000 people have visited Sydney’s Botanic Gardens to catch a whiff of an endangered plant known as the “corpse flower” as it bloomed. <\/p>\n

Dubbed Putricia, the titan arum plant emits a putrid smell likened to “something rotting” or “hot garbage” for 24 hours after blooming. <\/p>\n

The smell is the result of a chemical production that happens in the plant to attract pollinators. <\/p>\n

The endangered flower – native to Sumatra, Indonesia – only blooms every 7-10 years in the wild. There are thought to be fewer than 1,000 plants globally, including those in cultivation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Almost 20,000 people have visited Sydney’s Botanic Gardens to catch a whiff of an endangered plant known as the “corpse flower” as it bloomed. Dubbed Putricia, the titan arum plant emits a putrid smell likened to “something rotting” or “hot garbage” for 24 hours after blooming. The smell is the result of a chemical production […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1510,8165,97,1864,4375],"class_list":["post-21854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australians","tag-bloom","tag-plant","tag-react","tag-smell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21856,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21854\/revisions\/21856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}