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Crowds flock to see rare, pungent ‘corpse flower’ bloom

The Sumatran “corpse flower” (Amorphophallus titanum) is famous for smelling like its name, described variously as “rotten,” “musty” and “earthy.” At the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, a corpse flower named Morticia bloomed for the first time this week, reaching its fullest open span on Tuesday night, an event that…