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Watch: ‘Corpse Flower’ Set To Bloom At NY Botanical Garden
Thankfully a livestream of the putrid Titan-Arum's first bloom in four years isn't in Smell-O-Vision.
NEW YORK CITY — A putrid corpse flower’s first bloom in four years at New York Botanical Garden can be watched without enduring its foul odor.
A livestream camera is keeping a watchful eye on a Titan-Arum in the famed Bronx botanic garden’s collection.
“There’s nothing quite like spring at the Garden, and we’re starting the season with a major announcement—a corpse flower is set to bloom at NYBG,” a post on the garden’s Twitter account reads.
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The Titan-Arum — scientifically known as Amorphophallus titanum — is known for its spectacular large flower that gives off the scent of death. The rotting corpse smell attracts pollinating insects.
The plant is also fickle — it only blooms every few years, if that.
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The last time such a flower bloomed with all its morbid majesty at New York Botanical Garden was 2018.
The garden’s livestream will give New Yorkers a chance to see, but not smell, the flower when it finally unfurls.
Thankfully, the spectacle isn’t being filmed in Smell-O-Vision.
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