14 DAY TRIAL // It might be that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet (hat tip to Juliet for pointing that out), but the thing is that, as it turns out, it's also true that, by any other name, a teeny tiny flower recently discovered in Australia would still reek.
Thus, researchers say that, when dying and beginning to decay, these flowers that populate forests covering the Blue Mountains in New South Wales let out a foul odor that bears a striking resemblance to rotting seafood, especially fish.
“It’s a very similar smell to the fish market at the end of the day,” botanist Greg Steenbeeke with the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage told the press in an interview concerning the discovery of this new plant species, as cited by DM.
What's quite surprising is that, simply by looking at them, it is downright impossible to tell just how nasty and how big of a headache these flowers can turn out to be. Simply put, the orange flowers are merely the size of a 5-cent coin and look totally adorbs.
In case anyone was wondering, the newly discovered flower species now goes by the name of Thismia Megalongensis. The specialists who documented its existence say that it populates wet forests and that it usually grows beneath the leaves of plants much larger than itself.
