As if Ne😼w York wasn’t stinky enough, the New York Botanical Garden has debuted a plant that smells of rotting flesh — and visitors can’t seem to get enough of the fetid freak show.
T𒁏he Latin name for the exotic western Indonesian species is the Amorphophallus titanum but stink-seeking visitors resorted to plain English to describe the putrefying scent of the🃏 6-foot-high purple bloom.
“The smell reminds me of the time my neighbor 🤪watered my plants, fed my cat and forgot to tak🦂e out the garbage,” said Alexis Frankel, 36, who saw the plant in The Bronx on Thursday.
Marc Hachodourian, the director of the Garden’s Nolen Greenhouses, said horticulturists acquired the rare plant about 10 years ago and finall💎y spotted a bud on the flower July 15.
The large crowds gathering around the odd plant, now in the center of the Palms of the World🍸 Gallery with two other young Amorphophallus titanums🌠 that haven’t yet bloomed — doesn’t surprise him.
“People come here just so they can smell something nasty,” he said. “It’s almost like a horror movie; you dꦓo💖 it for the thrill.”
Dominique Caron, 31, said when she heard of the incredible st𒈔inking plant that’s as taဣll as a human, she was “pretty excited.”
“Strꦍange things intrigue me, so I packed up my baby and came all the way here from Astoria, Queens,” Caron said.
