DENVER, Colo.-- The corpse flower started blooming Tuesday night and continued to bloom into the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Our sister station, KUSA, has set up a Corpse Flower Live Cam at the Denver Botanic Gardens which can be found on YouTube here.
"That's the way they do. They can [grow quickly] in those tropical places," Fred Isaacs, a visitor to the gardens from England, said.
Isaacs said he saw a similar plant bloom in London's Kew Gardens.
The giant, strange-looking flower emits an odor like that of decaying flesh.
Corpse flowers from around the world:
The corpse flower is already drawing crowds of curious visitors.
"It's really kind of ugly, but it's fascinating. It just kind of captures your attention when you look at it," Polly Gutzmer, a visitor to the gardens, said. "I'll be interested to see what it looks like when it opens."
The bloom lasts only 48 hours, and it may take as many as ten years to bloom again.
This is the first corpse flower bloom in the garden's history.
To follow the corpse flower's progress, use the hashtag #StinkyDBG.
