Happy Halloween 2025 everyone, it’s a windy one here in the Tri-State area and New England, but if you want to want to avoid the trick or treaters and smell something interesting instead, a rare Corpse Flower is blooming nearby.
It always smells interesting around the Bronx Zoo and it’s neighbor the New York Botanical Garden, but it’s going to truly smell like someone is rotting at NYBG over the weekend, Amorphophallus titanum is it’s given name, but we’ve come to know it as the corpse flower in recent years, and one if blooming at this very second in the Bronx.
The Haupt Conservatory is where this foul-smelling plant lives, and it only blooms every four to ten years and the smell is only there for 24-28 hours. In Connecticut, we have a corpse flower at Eastern Connecticut State University that stunk up the joint two years ago, and earlier this Summer a corpse flower bloomed at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Believe it or not, a lot of folks want to smell what this exotic plant native to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
It’s a huge, single-leaf plant that can grow to be 15 feet tall, and it’s about as thick as your thigh. The powerful smell is used to attract carrion-eating bugs that will in turn pollinate. The odor, which some have described as hot garbage, an overflowing cesspool, and just plain death can be detected from over a half mile away. Skip the trick or treaters this weekend, and give your nose a fright.
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