Big, bold, stinky: The Rafflesia flower is a rotting spectacle in the highlands From explosive blooms to eco-treks, uncover ...

You don't often find crowds of people flocking together to take in the pungent scent of rotting flesh, but that's exactly what happens every time a corpse flower blooms at a public garden.

Inside the hot, humid greenhouse at Summit Sprouts, Sarah Dormer leaned in close to the blooming amorphophallus konjac, took a deep breath and recoiled, gagging.

It’s sometimes called a lily, but it’s an arum ... stench of death attract these insects to what appears to be a rotting corpse. Even better, the plant heats up its flowering structure ...