Visitors line up to see and smell a corpse flower’s stinking bloom in San Francisco

Crowds lined up in San Francisco on Wednesday to see - and smell - the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years. #shorts #corpseflower

[@3ull]

Flower: I’m actually farting.

[@citizenenak]

A dead carcass or garlic? Someone can't sniff with discernment to save their life.

[@ydne]

A Foodie at Heart.

[@Sarah-re7cg]

That’s what I was thinking 😂😂

[@NoonyaBiznaz]

Right! Garlic smells amazing. Stinky feet is like bacteria and fungi like cheese does. Most people dont know what a corpse smells like. Like a deer carcass or person or alligator or what??

[@_asantesana_squashbanana_]

The way the person leaned in for a huff at the end. Got covid related scent issues? Try to wake it up.

[@rickylogan8554]

Flower: I’m actually Eric Swalwell

[@latonyagreen-warner7402]

So the flower wanted to smell like a dead corpse, to attract flies. My question is,How did the flower know what a dead body smell like? ( I’m I making any sense? )

[@PrashayaShrestha]

My same question

[@SpinDuality]

It doesn't know. It's basically just evolution and successful pollination. If a flowering plant had a way of successfully pollinating then a couple thousand years ago, it would evolve into what it is now. It's like how fragrant and bright flowers attract bees and other insects for pollination, the difference is that this one attracts flies instead because flies are attracted to the smell.

[@candydandy2694]

The plant doesn't know, it doesn't need to know, they don't make conscious decisions, that is not how evolution works. SMH

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

Arranged by mother nature

[@Sarah-re7cg]

Pollinated by flies 🤢

[@aethyrsaeonaziagiarara]

"Now that you've cloned you can move on." Government Referral

[@JoeyJoJoJrShabbado]

Had a girlfriend like that

[@Dataj4535]

What does this mean?

[@ydne]

Sad that so many of these in nature become subsistence food.

[@domotemujin7780]

What do you mean? Could you elaborate?

[@ydne]

@@domotemujin7780People eat them.

[@HeindsAG]

Oh no!! People are eating plants!! What do we do

[@CameronsCreatures]

@@HeindsAGif your being sarcastic about that i can just say the same thing in another way

[@CameronsCreatures]

@@HeindsAGoh no people are killing animals! (Elephants)

[@seemsxlegit8039]

😂why does everyone say different years.. I saw two to three years... Four to five years

[@zulkifrisulaiman379]

Because everyone is thirsty of like, subscription, ego and pride.

[@zeever7]

10 years from the seed into grown plant and first time blooming, 2-3 years the flower may blooming again, 2-7 years until the flowers had the energy again to blooming. So yeah if the flower doesn't have enough resources, it may take up to 7 years