Mount Holyoke's corpse flower blooms again, drawing crowds to its 'rotting flesh' stench

""I was expecting it to smell bad, but it smelled genuinely like rotting flesh," said Nyx DelPrado, a first-year student at Mount Holyoke College who visited its Talcott Greenhouse this week to see the blooming of a corpse flower."

""Its name is accurate," DelPrado added with a laugh, nose wrinkled, adding that it reminded them of the scent of a dissection."

""A few people who have come in since have described the smell as being unbearable," said Tom Clark, director and curator of the Mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden."

The corpse flower, or Amorphophallus titanum, is a rare plant known for its foul odor, which mimics decaying flesh to attract pollinators. It blooms infrequently, drawing crowds to Mount Holyoke College's Talcott Greenhouse. Visitors have described the smell in various ways, including rotting eggs and dissected animals. The plant's bloom is a large inflorescence, with a central spadix and a deep purple spathe. Although the bloom lasts only a few days, the plant can survive underground and bloom again in future years.

Read at Boston.com