Crowds Get a Whiff of World’s Stinkiest Flower
From Times Wire Reports
The world’s biggest and stinkiest flower is in full, er, bloom here--only about the 15th such occurrence in the United States.
The 4-foot-high Amorphophallus titanum, or titan arum, considered by some the plant kingdom’s greatest superstar, is drawing to Quail Botanical Gardens crowds curious to smell the odor that gives the plant its nickname, the corpse flower.
“Eeeeeewwwwwwwwwww,” said 9-year-old Todd Fritz, who dropped to his knees and writhed on the ground in mock agony when he caught a whiff. “It’s the worst thing I’ve ever smelled.”
One of the stinky plants drew crowds three years ago at Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino.
