It weighs 150 kilograms and smells bad like dead rats

Giant 'corpse flower' appears in New York City for the first time in years

The giant "corpse flower" famous for its rotting scent is set to bloom in the New York Botanical Garden - for the first time in four years.

The endangered plant, also known as Titan Aroma and native to Indonesia, may look like a single flower, but it's actually a collection of flowers mounted on the stem.

The stem can reach a height of more than two meters, weigh up to 150 kilograms, smell mostly like dead mice, and take up to seven to 10 years to bloom — with the flower lasting only 24 to 36 hours, making the sight rare for New Yorkers looking to experience its stench, which is said to smell like rotting flesh or dead mice, in the Bronx park.

The Botanical Garden set up a live broadcast to allow flower lovers around the world to watch the "disgusting" scene without smell, as described by the New York Post.

The "corpse flower" in the Bronx has stunned New Yorkers in past years, most recently in 2019.

The flower releases its strong unpleasant odor to attract insects that have engaged in pollination processes flowers of the same disgusting smelling species, according to park officials.

The rarity of the plant itself has driven thousands of people into the gardens, queuing for hours to get a whiff of the stench.

The smell is caused by insects that interfered with the pollination of the same type of flowers.

After the collapse of the flower, the underground tuber remains dormant for up to a year before reappearing as a leaf, for only 48 hours.