Adding the starfish plant or Orbea variegata to your collection? This stinky plant produces an exotic star shaped flower that attracts flies when it blooms. Don’t worry; the smell is part of its charm and only comes with the flowers.
The giant corpse flower, titan arum, is enjoying more popularity than ever with at least half a dozen blooms each year in the United States, each attracting huge crowds of 100,000 or more people lining up to catch a glimpse (and whiff) of the plant that smells like death.
Titan arum may be rare, but there are actually hundreds of species of carrion plants that stink like death and rotting flesh. Many of them you can even grow yourself as a houseplant or in the garden.
We waited in line for 3 hours in the hot summer sun but it was worth it to finally see a corpse flower (titan arum) in person!
