“It smells like dirty diapers and rotten fish in a dumpster, and then another wave will hit you, and then another wave will hit you… and then it’ll just flow into dead body,” John Clements, director of gardens at the San Diego Botanic Garden, tells Renee Schmiedeberg of NBC 7 San Diego. ![]() “It was like a very pungent office fridge that hadn’t been cleaned out in a few months in a very warm room,” says Jennifer Tapler, youth education manager at the nonprofit Gardens of Golden Gate Park, to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Tara Duggan. Paired with a towering stalk-wrapped in what looks like a deep purple, upside-down skirt-this not-so-tantalizing perfume helps make the corpse flower “the rock-star plant of the plant world,” says Ari Novy, president and CEO of the San Diego Botanic Garden, to NPR’s Daniel Estrin.Ī post shared by San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers this week describe the aroma as everything from vegetables-gone-bad to rotting meat. The aroma comes from compounds in the flower that reek of “cheese, garlic, smelly feet, diapers or rotten fish,” according to the San Diego Botanic Garden. This past week, two corpse flowers unleashed their odors in California at the San Diego Botanic Garden and the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, and patrons quickly lined up to take a look-and a whiff.Ĭorpse flowers are infamous for their stench, which the plants only exude for the first two nights of their bloom. Known as the corpse flower or the titan arum, each of these rare plants opens up for only a few fleeting days, with several years between each bloom. ![]() If there’s one thing that can reliably draw a crowd, it’s an eight-foot-tall blossom that smells like a dead body.
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