California: thousands flock to see pair of pungent corpse flowers bloom

Two of largest – and smelliest – plants flower at Huntington library and gardens, as ‘enchanted’ visitors queue for hours Two corpse flowers have bloomed at a southern California research institution, where thousands of visitors had the rare chance to watch two of the world’s largest – and most odorous – plants flowering at the same time. The two titan arums, named Odorysseus and Odora, attracted more than 7,000 people on Monday at the Huntington library, art museum and botanical gardens in S...

By Coral Murphy Marcos