Entering the Fuqua Conservatory at the Atlanta Botanical Garden on Thursday, Midtown resident and garden member Jade Jamrozy was informed that she would have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a rare African flower that smells like rotting flesh.
“What a blessing,” she said, not altogether convincingly.
Yes, it stinks, but Atlanta’s grotesque new blossom is also distinctive. It is apparently the first time the rare plant has flowered in a garden in the North American continent.
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