Thousands of people have queued in the Royal Botanic Gardens to catch a whiff of a rare blooming corpse flower nicknamed ‘Putricia’. Less than a day after she began to release her signature stench, it looks like her short-lived glory is coming to and end, as Putricia withers back into dormancy.
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00:00As Pewtricia's fans say, blessed be the bloom, and after a week and a half of waiting, she's
00:09finally delivered.
00:10Pretty gross.
00:11Yeah.
00:12Horrible.
00:13Like rotting garbage.
00:14But like, light, slightly.
00:15You know?
00:16Like you left out the chicken a little bit too long.
00:21Her smell, which would ordinarily repel people, has instead attracted thousands, who've lined
00:27up for hours in the Royal Botanic Gardens to catch a whiff.
00:31It's super rad to see it bloom, so we're very excited.
00:33We've been in line for about three hours or so.
00:35The live stream of Sydney's first corpse flower in bloom for 15 years went viral.
00:42People from all over the world checked in to watch her over the past week and a half,
00:47developing a cult-like obsession with Pewtricia.
00:50We've been hyping this up all week.
00:52We even have friends overseas that are tuning in just to see us on the live stream.
00:56So we thought, we have to make it something really special.
00:59I think it's amazing to see that so many people are lining up for something so incredible
01:04in nature.
01:05We thought it would be very popular, but this level of attention, this level of crowds,
01:10the queues, the social media presence has been completely mannequin, and we're ecstatic.
01:15With every bloom comes a bust, and Pewtricia's spike is already well and truly wilting.
01:21It didn't smell as bad as I thought it would.
01:23Beautiful.
01:24Amazing.
01:25If she smelled, I wanted to smell something dirty.
01:29As the frenzy fades, fans from around the world can agree that Pewtricia has brought
01:34people together.
01:35And perhaps she's taught us that you can still be loved, even if you smell.