Scientific names of plants

Staff and visitors at Australia's Royal Botanic Garden Sydney are hoping to see — and smell — a rare event that could come at any moment: the blooming of a giant amorphophallus titanum, also known as the "corpse flower."

The flower's Latin scientific name translates as "giant, misshapen penis."

Visitors file by taking selfies of the flower as it sits on a raised dais protected by velvet ropes.

The botanical garden has also set up a livestream so that everyone has a chance to catch the momentous bloom. On Wednesday, some 3,000 people were online watching "Putricia," as the plant has been dubbed — a portmanteau of "putrid" and "Patricia."

"People have become quite obsessed with her," Daniella Pasqualini, the garden's horticultural development supervisor, was quoted as saying in The Guardian.

"She's taken on a life of her own."

The obsession is understandable. Sydney has been waiting scientific names of plants2 HOLY