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Rotterdam Zoo’s legendary Titan Arum is blooming again—this time with its infamous corpse-smelling stench to lure pollinators. Standing up to three meters tall, the rare plant only flowers every decade or so, and its scent is a wild evolutionary tactic to attract insects in its Sumatran rainforest home. This specimen, hand-pollinated in collaboration with another botanical garden, showcases nature’s clever survival strategy: male and female flowers open on different days to prevent self-pollination. With another bloom popping up in Belgium last month, this is nature’s ultimate showstopper—smelly, spectacular, and utterly unforgettable.

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