A giant, rare and notoriously stinky flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over the weekend, drawing hundreds to ...

A rare corpse flower, known for its overpowering stench ... By Monday, it had started to close, but not before drawing hundreds of visitors. Similar blooms occurred at Sydney’s Royal Botanic ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden.