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The bloom, which stands as tall as a human being, is actually a collection of hundreds of little flowers, both male and female.

San marino: A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower – well, tinkering around the edges isn’t going to help.

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower -- well, tinkering around the edges isn't going to help. A giant Amorphophallus Titanium opened its less-than-delicate petals this week at the Huntingdon Library near Los Angeles, an event that only comes once every few years. And it is giving off a powerful reek. "It smells of rotting flesh," says conservatory gardener Bryce Dunn. "It's trying to attract carrion flies to come pollinate it, so the more it can get that smell out the more flies it attracts, the better the plant does."

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower -- well, tinkering around the edges isn't going to help.

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower -- well, tinkering around the edges isn't going to help.Visitors on Monday flocked to see the corpse flower in all its pungent splendor.