The U.S. Botanic Garden’s corpse flower has bloomed. Here’s the stink on it.
- Posted on August 6, 2025
- By Washington Post
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The U.S. Botanic Garden’s corpse flower has bloomed. Here’s the stink on it.

The Amorphophallus titanum, known as the corpse flower because of its smell’s uncanny similarity to the stench of rotting flesh, began to bloom at about 4 p.m. Tuesday.