Visitors flock to the New York Botanical Garden all summer long for whiff of its fragrant blooms.
On Friday, they were drawn to an altogether less inviting odour.
Known as the “corpse flower”, it emits a pungent odour of rotting meat, luring pollinators that feed on dead animals.
The six-foot plant - it grows much taller in its natural habitat of Indonesia - has not bloomed for a decade, and has been carefully tended by horticulturalists here in the Bronx every day.
In the conservatory, visitors moved around the pond to try and catch a whiff from the largest flower in the world.
One of them was 29-year-old biology student Ronveer Chakraborty.
“It only blooms for a few days so the opportunity is limited,” he said.
“I can’t think of anything else which compares to this.”
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