Swiss stinking flower blooms

Visitors look at a blooming Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), pictured in the botanical garden of the university of Basel in Switzerland yesterday. Thousands of plant lovers have flocked to the northern Swiss city to see the giant, stinky flower...

Visitors look at a blooming Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), pictured in the botanical garden of the university of Basel in Switzerland yesterday. Thousands of plant lovers have flocked to the northern Swiss city to see the giant, stinky flower bloom for the first time in 17 years. The Basel Botanical Gardens expects 10,000 people to see its Amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, in full glory before the bloom wilts.

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