PHOTO: Rare ‘Penis Plant’ Blooms For The First Time In Almost 25 Years

It’s an extremely rare flower, and it stinks. For the first time in almost 25 years, a “penis plant” is blooming in Europe. According to the New York Post, the six-and-a-half-foot tall amorphophallus decus-silvae is flowering at the Leiden Hortus Botanicus in the Netherlands.

According to botanists, it’s only the third time in history that one of the plants has bloomed in Europe. The New York Post says the plant is native to the island of Java, and when it does bloom it gives off a “pungent smell of rotting flesh,” much like its relative the “corpse flower.”

Source: New York Post