Amorphophallus titanum, one of the biggest flowers in the world with the worst stench ever, is causing flies and tourists to swarm around a botanical garden in Florida.
The blossoming of twin “corpse” flowers, whose towering, phallic-shaped blooms reek of rotten flesh, is drawing tourists like flies to what experts are calling a lunar eclipse of the botany world. It's unusual to see one of these endangered titans bloom in its native Indonesia, much less in captivity, and two are putting on a malodorous show within days of each other at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida.