'Smellanie' the corpse flower set to attract thousands to Adelaide Botanic Garden

'Smellanie' the corpse flower set to attract thousands to Adelaide Botanic Garden

A corpse flower at the Adelaide Botanic Garden is generating excitement but it is actually among five of the rare plant to bloom in the city this summer.

Botanic Garden’s corpse that smells like flowers not as popular as flower that smells like a corpse for some reason

TRENT BARTLETT The Adelaide Botanic Garden is set to welcome thousands of visitors* in anticipation of catching a look and whiff of the SA’s own blooming corpse flower. A rare botanical event that produces a smell akin to rotting flesh or the Henley Beach shore in October 2025. Confusingly, however, visitors continue to ignore an ever-present attraction that smells much nicer than that awful flower, the Botanic Garden’s corpse that smells like f…