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Headline: Rare 'Corpse Flower' Blooms At NC State's Tropical Conservatory

Caption: Dr. Brandon Huber takes a sniff of his corpse flower, one of the biggest, stinkiest flowers in the plant kingdom that has just bloomed at North Carolina State University at NC State's Tropical Conservatory. The rare titan arum is named Lupin by Dr. Huber, after a character from the Harry Potter universe, is commonly known as the corpse flower due to its smell of rotting flesh as it blooms. It took the corpse flower 13 years to bloom for the first time in 2016. It bloomed again in 2019. It is expected to continue to do so every 3-7 years. Less than 400 Amorphophallus titanum blooms have occurred in cultivation since the first bloom in London in 1889.

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PersonInImage: Dr. Brandon Huber