The university says the nearly 6-foot titan arum is expected to open this week, releasing another round of its rotting-flesh smell a little more than two years after it first flowered.
A second corpse flower opened briefly at the greenhouse last May.
A university spokeswoman tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/15FLGSU ) cultivators are lucky to have three blooms in three years. Each brief bloom attracts visitors hoping to catch a glimpse or a whiff of it.
The plant expected to bloom soon is nicknamed Woody, after Buckeyes football coach Woody Hayes.
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Online:
Ohio State University greenhouse updates: http://bioscigreenhouse.osu.edu/titan-arum
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
