“Well, I’d say it smells like dirty gym socks wrapped around a rotten steak,” said Jonathan Goodrich, an associate director at the garden. “Yeah, I’d say that’s pretty descriptive.”

[...]“It releases the smell in waves,” Goodrich said. “It pulses, in a sense.”

— Maladora, a corpse flower at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, has bloomed. Read more at ‘Gym socks and rotten steak:’ Corpse flower blooms at UC garden at Berkeley News.