“It smells like feet, cheese and rotten meat. It just smelled like the worst possible combination of smells,” Elijah Blades told the Associated Press. “That was disgusting.” Amorphophallus ...

Like its better-known “corpse flower” cousin, which gives off a similarly putrid smell, the Amorphophallus gigas is also notable for its central spike, which can grow up to 12 feet tall.