More than 20,000 people have lined up to get a whiff of the rare flower which stinks like "chicken you've left out a little too long".

The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name ... Another flowered briefly in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens in late January, attracting 20,000 admirers. Similar numbers turned out ...

An Amorphophallus titanium, also known as a corpse flower, blooms for one to three days once every seven to 10 years. During the bloom, it releases a powerful smell, described by some as rotting ...