Nauseating smell of 'corpse flower' draws 10,000 to South Australian botanic garden

Huge crowds flock to Mount Lofty botanic gardens, outside Adelaide, to experience powerful odour produced by rare flowering of the Titan arum

Never has the smell of a rotting corpse been met with so much joy.

Gardeners at Mount Lofty botanic garden, about 18km from Adelaide, jubilantly announced on Monday the long-awaited flowering of the extremely rare Titan arum, more commonly known as the corpse flower for its distinctive and distinctly unpleasant odour.