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Thousands flock to see brief and rare blooming of corpse flowers in California

Two large corpse flowers in wooden boxes are surrounded by a crowd of onlookers at a botanical conservatory
The corpse flowers, Ordorysseus and Odora, on display at the Huntington in San Marino. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Two corpse flowers have bloomed at a southern California research institution, where thousands of visitors had the rare chance to watch two of the world’s largest – and most odorous – plants flowering at the same time.

The two titan arums, named Odorysseus and Odora, attracted more than 7,000 people on Monday at the Huntington library, art museum and botanical gardens in San Marino, about 12 miles (19km) from downtown Los Angeles, after they bloomed over the weekend.

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