The so-called ‘corpse’ flower, which emits a fragrance that smells of rotting flesh, will bloom this week at Honolulu’s Foster Botanical Garden.

Our Landblog reports:

Exciting news from Honolulu’s botanical garden …

The endangered Amorhophallus titanium plant, which has a “horrific odor of rotted flesh” is expected to bloom in Honolulu’s Foster Botanical Garden on Thursday, according to a press release from the Dept. of Parks and Recreation. 

The plant’s name means “misshapen penis” in Greek.

The flower only blooms once every three to five years and is a native of Sumatra Indonesia. 

According to Scot Mitamura, a Honolulu Botanical Garden horticulturalist, the Amorphophallus titanum is the largest unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom. Contributing to this plants’ exotic allure is its horrific odor of rotted flesh, which serves to attract the carrion beetles that pollinate the flower.

If you want to see, or smell, the plant, it can be found at Foster Botanical Garden: 50 North Vineyard Blvd., Honolulu.