It's a stench you won't stick your nose up at. 👃 The corpse flower is stinking now at the San Diego Botanic Garden for only a few days.
"And it smells like dirty diapers and rotten fish in a dumpster, and then another wave will hit you and thenwave will hit you, and then it will smell like really, really bad, dirty, funky feet with rotten dead things, and then it'll just flow into dead body," he added.
The flower bloomed on Halloween at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas for the first time since 2018, and only the second time in its 14 years of existence, reports NBC 7's Joe Little.Most of these Sumatran-rainforest-native plants need to age seven to 10 years before blooming for the first time. After that, they bloom only every four or five years afterwards.
After fully blooming, it will emanate its famous stench for only three days before starting to close up and decay slowly over the next few weeks. “The corpse flower is the smelly rock star of the plant world,” said San Diego Botanic Garden President and CEO Ari Novy, Ph.D. “Its putrescence attracts pollinators in its native habitat in Sumatra, Indonesia, while also attracting curious humans from around the world excited to experience this beautiful, stinky, giant inflorescence.”
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