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Pungent corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse

One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which resembles that of rotting flesh.

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‘Rotting' corpse flower in rare bloom at Brooklyn Botanic Garden for a limited time

Most of the time, people don’t make a pilgrimage to see (and smell) something that smells like rotting meat. But this case is different.

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Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, drawing crowds to sniff its "stinky cheese, foot smell"

A rare corpse flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this weekend, and people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent.

What to know about the corpse flower, which smells like rotting meat

Corpse flower blooms are often inconsistent. Many will bloom once a decade, though sometimes even more frequently.

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You Can Watch The Royal Botanic Gardens' Rarest Plant Prepare to Flower Via This Round-the-Clock Live Feed

As Sydney waits for this stinky plant to unfurl its petals for the first time in 15 years, thousands of floral fans are following its progress online.

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Pungent corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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