A rare corpse flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours Saturday to get a whiff of ...
The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to that of a dead rat.Credit...Adrienne Grunwald for The New York Times Supported by By Anna Kodé ...
The Amorphophallus gigas plant, better known as a corpse flower, was obtained as a seedling ... "Yesterday at least was dead rat with a little garlic, a little burnt plastic.