Corpse Flower - World’s Smelliest Plant
Corpse Flower, aka Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum)—the stinkiest plant on earth, is booming this winter in London due to warm weather. Is it stinkier than Stinky To-Fu? 
Unseasonably warm weather may have tricked the world’s smelliest plant into blooming in the middle of the northern hemisphere winter, botanists at the Eden Project where the native of Sumatra is housed, told Reuters.
The warmth of 2006 and mild winter to date have encouraged the Titan Arum or Corpse Flower into a phenomenal growth spurt and into flower — an event that usually happens only once every six to nine years.
“The Titan, standing at 164 cms tall is now giving off a revolting stink,” said curator Don Murray. “It is a cross between rotten cheese, dog poo and something dead.”
“Tonight the flowers will be in full bloom — as will the stench — and that will last through Tuesday and Wednesday. But by Thursday it will have started to die back,” he told Reuters from the project in Cornwall 220 miles southwest of London.
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kenneth said,
June 18, 2008
i found out in the guiness world of record GWR that it can be smelt over half a mile.