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TOURISTS are lining up in Belgium for the chance to visit a huge, foul-smelling plant.

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If u had a chance like this, would you take it?

I think i'll pass.

I'd like to see the plant,but I don't want to smell it.I'll stick to the good smelling flowers.The mimosas smell wonderful right now.

I think I'd rather just see pictures of it, but thanks for asking.

I've been around when one bloomed...it's good for a one off interesting and short experience. Whole lotta flies and yep, it stinks - no reason to linger. Put it in the 'been there, done that' file and move on.

Well you know - as bees might be headed for extinction, plants will have to pollinate by attracting other insects such as flies like the corpse flower. In that case, maybe we should expect plants all over to evolve the stinky corpse smell.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

that sounds like a prescient thought!

Alas, it's a curse.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

that means that if you tell me the stock market is headed a certain way, I could make some money?

No, I think I can only predict stinky, terrible things.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

^^^You have my sympathy,I lived near a paper mill town.The fish have dioxin in them and the sulphur ate the paint of all the cars nearby.And the smell,there is nothing like it.

I'd like to see it, but not to smell it. There's a smaller Amorphophallus rivieri in the Oxford Botanic Garden, and it smells disgusting. When I was there earlier this year some people walked in, looked at me in disgust, and walked out again without noticing the plant. I got the feeling they thought the smell was caused by me.

I think they were just so shocked by the stench that they couldn't help it. It was a small space and a hot day. But yes, it was rude.