The rare bloom at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens smells like rotting meat — and it only lasts a few days. CLEVELAND — The smell ...

A plant at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens called Titan Arum —which gives off a rotting meat smell — is blooming in a brief, ...

Titan arum's pebble-sized red, oval fruits appear nine months after fertilisation, and each contain two seeds. In the wild they are eaten and spread by birds such as rhinoceros hornbills.

The stench - which is strongest on the first day of the flower's two-day bloom - has been likened in the past to dead animals ...

Amorphophallus titanum. That's probably not something in your everyday vocabulary, but if you say corpse flower to a San ...

One of the world's largest and most foul-smelling flowers has bloomed for the first time in two years, at a botanical garden ...

The titan arum heats up about 20 degrees Fahrenheit over the ambient temperature when the flower blooms. A heatmap of the corpse flower (right) compared to a visible light image (left).

The titan arum is also one of the world's largest and rarest flowers. However, the plant's main claim to fame is probably the fact that it smells almost exactly like rotting flesh.

Abigail Zaehringer, left, carries her son, Avery Liu, on her shoulders while visiting the Conservatory of Flowers to watch ...

Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) in bloom at the United States Botanic Garden Conservatory, Nov. 20, 2005. (United States Botanic Garden) ...