14 DAY TRIAL // About a week ago, staff at the US Botanic Garden Conservatory announced that a 10-year-old corpse flower housed at this facility was getting ready to bloom. Otherwise put, it was getting ready to stink up the place.
According to Nature World News, the plant started to bloom this past Sunday afternoon.
The flower is expected to stay open for 24 – 48 hours, and release its strongest stench on Monday morning.
The corpse flower, otherwise known as Titan arum, releases a strong smell that resembles that of rotting flesh every time it blooms, the same source informs us.
Humans tend to cover their noses the moment they catch a whiff of a corpse flower in bloom, but insects really love this foul odor, specialists explain.
They fly to the plant, carefully inspect the flower and thus help pollinate it.