Botanist Steve Jones at the US Botanic Garden with a corpse flower bloom Devin Dotson/US Botanic Garden
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The first thing that drew me to the corpse flower was its unusual name. The second was the reason for the name – they bloom rarely and only for 24 to 36 hours, but when they do, they release a horrendous odour that can travel about half a mile and smells like rotting flesh.…
