The plant remains on public display. More than 1,000 people viewed the plant today, in addition to more than 1,000 who saw it during the last several days. It is the 10th time this century an A. titanum has bloomed in the United States and the first time west of St. Louis. July 9 . The captions recap the tumescent putrefaction blow by blow.
Thousands line up to see and sniff it.