Visitors crowded the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday, January 24, to catch a glimpse of the blooming Amorphophallus gigas, also known as a “corpse flower,” due to its unique stench.

Corpse flowers are the celebrities of the plant world. When these rare plants bloom in botanic gardens, thousands of fans ...

And you can watch a time-lapse video of a corpse flower blooming at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC below (which, fortunately, does not come with smell-o-vision).