Fewer than 1,000 titan arum specimens remain in the wild, but the Huntington actually has a whole cadre of corpse flowers: It ...

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

Titan VanCoug is a titan arum, or corpse flower. The plant is native to Indonesia, and WSU explains that it's special for various reasons.

The garden doesn’t have any such beetles, but resident flies may visit, he said. The U.S. Botanic Garden's corpse flower (titan arum) is shown here last week, not yet blooming.

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

It will be the first flowering of this titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the stinky plant, which has lived at the garden since 2007. The plant doesn’t have an annual blooming ...

The titan arum currently in bloom for the third time, named Sumatra, last flowered in 2017. A second flower, Spike, is set to bloom for the fourth time in the coming week.

The titan arum's inflorescence can reach over 10 feet in height and weigh as much as 170 pounds. An inflorescence is a cluster of smaller individual flowers, like a daisy or sunflower.

Nicknamed the corpse flower, titan arums are rare and can grow for a long while -- usually 10 years or more -- before they start blooming, according to the Chicago Botanic Garden's website.