This flower smells like a rotting corpse, and you can watch it bloom live right now

For 10 years the New York Botanical Garden has devoted time and resources to the Amorphophallus titanum, a single towering flower that when in bloom smells like a rotting corpse. Today garden guests may be able to catch a whiff of that rare stench, as the flower is expected to bloom at any moment. The rest of us can witness the fruits of the garden’s labor on its YouTube live stream. We won’t get that rotting dead body smell, but maybe that’s for the better.

According to The Hairpin, who brought our attention to this organic miracle, this will be the first corpse flower bloom at the New York Botanical Garden since 1939. For over 70 years, New York City tourists were left to get their corpse smell from actual corpses! Really makes you...