After several days of flirting with crowds over it’s expected rare bloom, The Huntington’s famous “Corpse Flower” did just that on Thursday. There’s a short window of

A putrid-smelling, not-so-dainty flower bloomed overnight in San Marino. The Huntington Library's Corpse Flower bloom emits the stench of rotten meat, and it attracts the curious who want to see and smell the rare plant.

The endangered flower started to bloom Wednesday night and is expected to close back up by Thursday evening. Corpse flowers blossom every four to six years. The specimen in bloom