Putrid-smelling flower attracts large crowds in California

The unique plant is a stalk of multiple flowers held together at the base and surrounded by a large green leaf covering called a spathe.

The corpse flower at University of California Botanical Gardens, Amorphophallus titanum (less offensively known as Titan Arum), is in bloom this week.

The garden is open to visitors until 7 p.m. Sunday.

Garden officials are scheduled to cut into the plant late Sunday afternoon to collect pollen and reveal the flower’s “innermost secrets”, the release said. Trudy should remain in bloom for a few more days.

The flower does give a warning by emitting the corpse like smell a day before the collapse, the group said. The botanical garden has eight under propagation, but he couldn’t say when the next one would open.

Garden officials are expecting so many visitors that they set up a free shuttle that runs between the garden and the parking lot of the Lawrence Hall of Science.

This is the 9th bloom featured on display at the UC Botanical Garden since 2005.

Trudy around 8 p.m. Saturday July 25, just as she is starting to bloom.

Alison said, “It stinks”.