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People who foul-smelling flowers were in luck this week. They a chance to see and the world's smelliest plant, called the corpse flower. A corpse is a dead body. The flower its name because it smells like rotting flesh. The bloom thousands of visitors to the Geelong Botanic Garden, just south of Melbourne, Australia. The plant began on Monday. More than five thousand people the garden to see it. Some people had to their nose when they were near the flower. Others coughed and their breath because of the foul smell. Australia's Nine News channel that visitors described the smell as being like a dead mouse or rotting garbage.

The corpse flower extremely rare. The plant is native to Indonesia. An international conservation group it as an endangered species. The group says there only a few hundred of the plants left in the wild. A lot of the forest in which the plant has been cut down. Corporations are using the land to palm oil. The flower is one of the biggest in the world. It can grow to a height of three metres and over 40 years. However, it just once a decade and only for a day or two. The flower smells like the rotting flesh of a dead animal. This smell beetles and flies. The insects the flower so it can bloom again.