Amorphophallus Titanum at Brooklyn Botanical Garden

If you are interested in this unusual plant, the Amorphophallus titanum (Corpse Flower) , you can read more and see more about it at: It grows very fast just before blooming - doubling in size in ten days - and then, because it needs to attract a certain fly that usually feeds on carrion for its fertilization, the bloom smells like rotting flesh for about 8 hours. Nice, eh? Anyway, it was a big event it into the local news and the NY Times, et