Tag: Amorphophallus Titanium

‘Like an urban dumpster’: rare corpse flower stinks out 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. 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 […]