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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation, thousands of people who have been

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Speaker 1: lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens. This is because

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Speaker 1: of what's known as the corpse plant.

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Speaker 2: Oh we've got one here in our Sydney that's right.

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Speaker 1: Its name is a morpho phallus titanium. It only blooms

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Speaker 1: kind of once a year and you really hope to

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Speaker 1: catch it it is in bloom now. I'll put a

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Speaker 1: picture of it on the screen for you, Brendon. Actually

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Speaker 1: thousands of people are tuning in every day for a

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Speaker 1: live stream of it and you see people walking past.

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Speaker 1: I needed to see it. We'll describe it. It's like

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Speaker 1: a big open cabbage with a giant phallus out the top.

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Speaker 1: But apparently it's the smell that's quite extraordinary. It's been

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Speaker 1: described as off chicken, smelly socks, dead mouse. So it

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Speaker 1: has an incredible pungency around it. But the fact it's

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Speaker 1: opening is so rare is why people line up to.

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Speaker 2: And why is it so stinky? What is that to attract?

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Speaker 2: In zec and things?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: So it pollinates.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, but then why don't all plants do it?

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's its things.

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Speaker 2: Flowers have a nice smell yeah, but.

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Speaker 1: That's how they what they do to attract them. So

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Speaker 1: you imagine getting this for Valentine's Day. Maybe some get

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Speaker 1: the picture there. Some people might be quite happy.

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Speaker 2: The smell.

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Speaker 1: But if you want to check it out on live stream.

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Speaker 2: I heard someone complain it wasn't as stinky as they would.

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Speaker 1: Have Some people want it to be stinky. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you go in expecting full stink, it may not

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Speaker 1: be as bad as you're hoping, or maybe just that moment.

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Speaker 1: But I've seen on live stream people walking past it

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Speaker 1: with their hands motionally trying to push the waft towards

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Speaker 1: their face. Hey, we are our producers putting this upf

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Speaker 1: It smells because the insects that go in are are

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Speaker 1: into rotting meat.

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Speaker 2: They could write anything here and you'd read it.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ron Burgundy. We've heard it all now all No,

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Speaker 1: it's not just the long ones ones.

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Speaker 2: Why is no one?

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Speaker 1: Why are you asking questions you've asked. I asked one

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Speaker 1: single question of the big fact, and you go, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, so.

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Speaker 2: I just wanted more information. That's all.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's it. Have a look.

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Speaker 2: This is a live stream.

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Speaker 1: Now we've got the live stream. It's the city of Greater.

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Speaker 2: That's Geelong, Yes, yeah, that's well it's closed.

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Speaker 1: Up, Well maybe it's. It only lasts for twenty four hours,

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Speaker 1: but the big stalky bit still there. That disappears, doesn't

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Speaker 2: It eventually as you get older, But there's still stick