Corpse 'flower' now in bloom!

Berkeley Botanical Garden's rare Titan arum plant is now blooming. The inflorescence (commonly misunderstood as a single flower) of Titan arum is huge, growing to a maximum of 9 ft (reported once).

I saw this plant on my first visit to the garden. But I never knew it was this fascinating.

Its perfume smells 'like there is a dead body in the room', and is strongest for the first twelve hours of blooming. Go there while it lasts, it would be the strongest for the next 4-5 hours, maybe. And the flower would be in its prime for merely 4 days or so. The flowering is so rare that the wiki article on the plant lists the various recent flowerings. You may never smell one again!