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Jun 10, 2009 3:57 pm US/Pacific

Corpse Flower About To Make A Big Stink

Get Ready San Marino: A Foul Fauna Is Ready To Bloom

SAN MARINO (CBS) ― It's the smell only maybe a fly could love.

The putrid smell of rotting, decaying flesh. A pretty picture? Nope. A pretty flower? Not so much.

But despite the fact the flower isn't much to look at or, according to well-informed nostrils, anything to smell if you enjoy not gagging, people will come from miles around (and further) to visit the Corpse Flower in San Marino.

It's not hard to find. Go to San Marino and follow the trail of decaying flesh. Okay, we joke...it's not THAT bad.

But do go (if you are strong) to the Huntington Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science. The Corpse Flower is expected to bloom anywhere between right-this-minute to the 15th of this month. Click here for a link to the Botanical Gardens.

The foul fauna is technically called the Amorphophallus titanum (which is Latin for "WTF died in here?!)

Fortunately, this plant blooms only once every few years. 

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