This rare flower that smells like 'rotten flesh' will bloom soon inside a Michigan home
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For over half their lives, twins Rainey and Evelyn Hauser have shared their dad's attention with a leafy sibling of sorts — an endangered tropical plant called an Amorphophallus titanum.
For over half their lives, twins Rainey and Evelyn Hauser have shared their dad's attention with a leafy sibling of sorts — an endangered tropical plant called an Amorphophallus titanum.
"He'd always say, 'You’re going to be famous one day when it’s on the news' and I was like, 'Yeah, sure,'" Evelyn Hauser said.
Well, it looks like that day has come.
Walking 7 Action News into their Dexter conservatory, Kevin Hauser gestured toward the flower saying, "Her name’s 'Corpsey.'"
Why Corpsey?
When the plant blooms in 10 to 20 days, it will try to mimic a dead body, rising in temperature to 98 degrees.
"For the day, two days that it’s blooming, it will actually smell like rotten flesh and it will fill this house with a horrible smell," Kevin Hauser shared.
