Blooms once every 5-7 years: a rare plant can be seen in the San Diego Botanical Garden

It has an unpleasant odor.

Tourist bait with the smell of rotten fish – in the Botanical Gardens of American San Diego, visitors lined up to see a rare flower.

This was reported in on air TSN.Rank November 3.

Amorpho-falus giant blooms for only 48 hours. And this happens only once every 5-7 years. In addition, the plant takes years to bloom.

Therefore, the curiosity of visitors to it is understandable. Even in spite of the pungent smell, which is compared to rotten meat or fish. In the wild, the plant uses this specific scent to attract carnivorous insects that pollinate it.