Usually, people try to avoid anything considered “rotting.”<\/p>\n
But a rare corpse flower is expected to bloom in Brooklyn just in time for Halloween.<\/p>\n
The infamous flower known for its rotting, putrid smell is literally called the “corpse flower” \u2014 otherwise known as titus-arum or amorphophallus titanum. <\/p>\n
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) says this one should bloom in about two weeks. The bloom doesn’t last long, though, and neither, mercifully, does the smell.<\/p>\n
NYBG says the corpse flower only blooms every three to five years after its first bloom, which can take nearly a decade, and lasts just for two to three days, heightening anticipation for the attraction.<\/p>\n
The flower, which is “the largest unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom,” according to the federal government, can grow up to 9 feet tall. <\/p>\n
Good news: You can watch a livestream of this one as we wait, courtesy of NYBG, in the YouTube player above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usually, people try to avoid anything considered “rotting.” But a rare corpse flower is expected to bloom in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,5883,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-6538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-nature","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}