Credit: Photo via Cleveland Metroparks Zoo/Twitter
The scent of the rare and extremely shy corpse flower (aka amorphophallus titanum) is said to smell like an overflowing garbage truck paired with, well, death. And Clevelanders can soon get a waft of that heady perfume.

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo just announced their plant is fixing to open sometime soon.

Clearly, this exotic plant is not native to Ohio and can be found at the zoo’s RainForest section, along with 10,000 other plants and more than 600 animals. In a 25-year stint at the park, the flower has only opened four times, so to catch it in action once more would be something to behold (although we’re not sure it’s a scent worth smelling).

We’ll keep you updated as this story develops.

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This article appears in Jul 24-30, 2019.

4 replies on “Stinky-Ass Corpse Flower to Open at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Soon”

  2. “Stinky-ass”…how OLD are you people?

    That expression does NOT bring to mind something “said to smell like an overflowing garbage truck paired with…death”…. it brings to mind either…well…someone’s posterior orifice…or some grammar school kid who is just learning how to swear.

    Pretty lame stuff, but not surprising for the folks who recently talked about some tree that “smells like jizz”… when are you people going to stop trying to be youthfully cool and just…well…GROW UP?

  4. No…the adults are in the room. And “stinky-ass” sounds really lame…and classless…

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