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Corpse Plant

In 1999, when the plant bloomed in the Huntington Botanical Garden in California, more than 76,000 visitors held their noses and went to see it. In Fairchild Garden in Florida, 5,500 visitors made the trek to see the infamous blossom; and at the Botanic Garden of the University of Bonn, Germany, the line to see the flowering titan arum extended more than two miles. The corpse plant was first cultivated in the English Royal Botanic Gardens in 1887 after having been found in 1878 in Indonesia.At...