--- title: Corpse Flower Blooms: Watch Smelly Plant Live in New York description: New York Botanical Garden's giant, 8-foot blossom of the Amorphophallus titanum only blooms once a decade, emitting a powerful odor. canonical: https://time.com/4430658/corpse-flower-bloom-live/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-29T16:00:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:55.165Z og:title: Watch as the Famously Smelly 'Corpse Flower' Finally Blooms og:description: The giant, 8-foot plant only blooms once a decade, and emits a powerful odor. og:url: https://time.com/4430658/corpse-flower-bloom-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch as the Famously Smelly 'Corpse Flower' Finally Blooms twitter:description: The giant, 8-foot plant only blooms once a decade, and emits a powerful odor. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live as the Famously Smelly 'Corpse Flower' Finally Blooms > Sponsored content. 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The flower is a rare tropical specimen that only blooms about once a decade — and then only for 24 to 36 hours. But it’s a dramatic period, as the giant blossom opens up to reveal a lush red interior, the second-largest bloom among known plant species. Native to western Sumatra, the corpse flower gets its nickname from the distinctive smell it emits: the strong odor of decaying meat. It’s an especially big deal for New York because this is the first time since 1939 that the New York Botanical Garden has been home to a blooming Amorphophallus titanum. To share the excitement with visitors, the garden is keeping a live cam trained on the plant’s progress — and is even staying open extra late on Friday evening to allow eager botany fans the opportunity to see (and smell) the “horticultural jewel” in the flesh. “Each day of careful tending and feeding has led up to this moment: a brief yet glorious window in which the enormous plant (up to eight feet high) will unfurl, displaying the striking red interior and uncanny scent to which it owes its name. This is the first time that a blooming titan-arum has been put on display at the Garden since 1939,” [the Botanical Garden site notes.](http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2016/corpse-flower.php) The Botanical Garden first received one of the corpse flowers in 1932, and it bloomed on June 8, 1937\. The Amorphophallus titanum was later named the official flower of the New York burrough of the Bronx in honor of the bloom (although that was changed to the daylily in 2000). 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