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Visitors view and smell the corpse flower, or Amorphophallus titanum, at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino. The plant bloomed the previous night and emitted a vile smell similar to that of rotting meat. The last time it bloomed was in 2002.

Corpse flower

( Jake Stevens / Los Angeles Times / June 18, 2009 )

Visitors view and smell the corpse flower, or Amorphophallus titanum, at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino. The plant bloomed the previous night and emitted a vile smell similar to that of rotting meat. The last time it bloomed was in 2002.

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