Corpse flower is one bloom you don’t want to smell

The stigma of the titan arum or corpse flower at the Biology Greenhouse Complex at Cal State University Fullerton on Saturday morning, June 23, 2018. The plant bloomed on Friday afternoon. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Edward Read, the greenhouse manager of the Biology Greenhouse Complex at Cal State University Fullerton in Fullerton cuts out a small window to look inside the inflorescence of the titan arum or corpse flower on Saturday, June23, 2018. (Photo by Mark Right