The wait is over: The large, stinky flower that smells like rotting flesh is in bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington.
July 12, 2013 Jim Kaufmann, a supervisory horticulturist at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, rearranges the moss at the base of the then-closed titan arum, known as the “corpse flower.” The plant, which smells like rotting flesh, began to bloom July 21; garden officials said the flower would hit its “peak smell” July 22 and stay open for one or two days. Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post