Houston - Anticipation of the soon-to-bloom stinky “corpse flower” drew record crowds to the Cockrell Butterfly Center this weekend. Visitors saw, but didn’t yet smell, the endangered species, which is expected to bloom by Wednesday. The flower, native to the Sumatran rainforests in Indonesia, is one of the biggest and most mysterious flowers in the world. It’s bloom is so rare that only 28 other bloomings have been observed in the United States. It gets its name from one of its more unique traits: When the “corpse flower” opens, the smell of meat flies’ meals permeates. Those flies - the plant’s primary pollinators - feast on rotting flesh. It’s one of the worse smells you will come across.
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