Dozens of people turned out to witness the rare unfurling of a tropical plant that emits a powerful stench at a botanical garden in San Francisco on Tuesday. Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest.
Corpse flower blooms at San Francisco’s Gardens of Golden Gate Park
Dozens of people turned out to witness the rare unfurling of a tropical plant that emits a powerful stench at a botanical garden in San Francisco on Tuesday. Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum — or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest.