"Smells Like Rotting Flesh": Rare Corpse Flower Blooms In California
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.
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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.
A rare corpse flower finally opened its petals at The Huntingdon Library in San Marino and it is giving off a smell of "rotting flesh."
The Huntington's 22nd Corpse Flower began to bloom on August's final Sunday.
It can grow more than eight feet tall, blooms for only one-to-three days every year or so, and boasts a powerful stench when it blooms.