That flower stinks!
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People line up to see the rare corpse flower in Alameda, California. (Peter Hartlaub/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) -
Roxanne Anderson and her daughter, Raelin, look at a corpse flower in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP) -
Juliana Castro holds her nose. She visited a corpse flower at a college with her dad. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli) -
Kelly Torres smells the stinky flower. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli) -
Kids take a photo in front of a flower. It is about to bloom. (AP/Kathy Willens)
What is that smell? Is it an animal? No! It is a giant flower!
The corpse flower is beautiful. But it stinks! Daring people lined up at an old gas station. They wanted to take a sniff.
Read More: People stopped by an abandoned gas station in Alameda, California. They wanted a whiff of the corpse flower that Solomon Levya had raised. It is a rare plant from Sumatra. It smells like a dead animal when it blooms. The smell brings beetles and flies. They pollinate the flower. Over 1,000 people came to see the big bloom. God made all the flowers. Even the ones that don’t smell very good. Isaiah 40:8 says, “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
