Corpse flower to bloom very soon at Temple Ambler

A corpse flower, named so because it smells of rotting flesh in the days before it blooms, is set to bloom at the school’s greenhouse any day now.

Temple said that it will likely bloom sometime between Sunday, April 16 and Wednesday, April 19.

To register to view the flower in person in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture Greenhouse Education and Research Complex, you can click here. A Live Stream of the flower is up and running here.


For more information, you can click here. For CBS3 Philadelphia’s coverage, you can click here.

Photos courtesy of Temple University