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California: Blooming Corpse Flowers a Great Hit

San Francisco (June 20, 2017): Two corpse flowers blooming for the first time in ten years are attracting crowds of Northern Californian plant lovers here.

Hundreds of people are flocking to the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers after it issued a “stink alert” on Thursday that the 8-foot-tall plant from Sumatra was beginning to unfurl its frilly purple-and-green leaf around a yellow spike.

When blooming, the flower known as Titan Arum emits a stench redolent of rotting flesh.

The conservatory is extending its hours Saturday so visitors can gaze at the giant flower and get a whiff of its putrid odor. The smell peaks for no more than 48 hours before the flower begins to collapse.

A nursery in Sebastopol, about 50 miles north of San Francisco, is anticipating that its corpse flower will bloom next weekend.

Meanwhile, owner of California Carnivores nursery Damon Collingsworth said that he too has bought a 2-year-old seedling from the botanical garden in Berkeley in 2010. He has watched it grow to about 3 feet tall and expects it to double in size when it blooms.