Stinking Corpse Blossom LIVE

 The Corpse Flower in Milwaukee has fallen over but is still blossoming as seen above.

The Corpse Plant, or Corpse Flower is a rare, large, tropical plant with a large foul smelling blossom. More known as, Amorphophallus titanum (from Ancient Greek amorphos, “without form, misshapen” + phallos, “penis”, and titan, “giant”) or Titan arum.

Flowerings are rare and special events that last approximately 2 days.

The Milwaukee Public Museum has one on display that is flowering, even though it collapsed unexpectedly on Saturday. Since the Click here to see the live web cam.

Sources: www.wisn.com and wikipedia

In full glory the stinking corpse flower looks like the above specimen.