Note: This video is from June 2024.

ST. LOUIS – Soon, visitors at the Missouri Botanical Garden will have 24 hours to view the infamous bloom of the Corpse Flower.

According to the botanical garden, the Corpse Flower’s actual name is the titan arum. The flower gives off a foul smell “mimicking rotting flesh” when it blooms—which is usually just over a day long—which brings in other pollinators, hence its name.

Currently, the flower is sitting in the climatron. Experts are anticipating the bloom anytime between May 29 and June 5.

This corpse flower, named “Lucy,” will be the 18th one to bloom at the garden since 2012. Despite this, the plant is still deemed endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Lucy, which weighs 30.5 pounds, came as part of gift from the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in 2019.

A new exhibit in the garden, “Smelling the Bouquet” at the Peter and Stephen Sachs Museum goes in-hand with the bloom as it explains where the smell of the flower comes from.