ST. LOUIS (KMOX) — Patrons who visit the Missouri Botanical Garden will have their nostrils spared this year as the notoriously smelly "corpse flower" is reported to not bloom this year.
The plant will remain on display, however, as garden workers "monitor her decline."
According to Emily Colletti, the horiculturist in charge of the aroid collections at MoBot, "corpse flowers" typically take 10 years to grow from a seed into a blooming flower. Octavia, the particular plant currently on display at MoBot, is 16 years old and would have bloomed for its second time this week.
Last week, MoBot announced that the plant was continuing to break records "at 97 inches and 20 days of 'bloom watch.'" The garden has positioned a camera on the flower streaming live for people on the internet to admire.