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Episode: Visitors line up to see and smell a corpse flower’s stinking bloom in San Francisco
Description: Crowds lined up in San Francisco to see—and smell—the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years.
An Amorphophallus titanum, also known as a corpse flower, began blooming at the California Academy of Sciences, a research institution and museum. The plant blooms for one to three days once every seven to 10 years. During the bloom, it releases a powerful smell described by some as rotting food or sweaty socks.
“It's kind of imitating the smell of kind of a dead carcass to kind of get all the flies to com...