“What attracts people to this plant? It's the shock value. People love a train wreck. You glance, drive by, recoil, then look again”, said the corpse flower�s owner and caretaker, Robert Saporito, who planted the corpse flower in 2006. (Photo by Bruce R. Bennett/The Palm Beach Post)
A hole is cut into the corpse flower so that it can be pollinated. (Photo by Bill Ingram/The Palm Beach Post)
The “corpse flower” (Amorphophallus titanum) at Tropical Bamboo Nursery and Gardens is six-feet tall. (Photo by Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
The Amorphophallus titanum flower, indigenous to Sumatra, blooms on July 21, 2014 in Loxahatchee. (Photo by Bill Ingram/The Palm Beach Post)
Visitors to Tropical Bamboo Nursery and Garden take photos of the blooming corpse flower. (Photo by Bill Ingram/The Palm Beach Post)
Mateo Santiago, Field Manager at Tropical Bamboo Nursery and Gardens, photographs rain water collecting in the corpse flower as Garden Manager Melanie Benson steadies a ladder. Santiago crinkled his nose up distastefully when he described its odor, which was at its worse Sunday night. “It smelled like a dead rat”. (Photo by Melanie Bell/Palm Beach Daily News)
The corpse flower blooms on Monday. (Photo by Bill Ingram/The Palm Beach Post)
Mary Fran Weissleder, top, of Lake Worth practices a form of therapeutic yoga with Paban Alankar, of Loxahatchee, near the corpse flower on Saturday. (Photo by Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)
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