There's one of those in the Atlanta Botanical Gardens' greenhouse and they practically send out a citywide bulletin when it blooms for everyone to come smell it. We had some in the University of Hawaii greenhouse. Yecchh.
As I recall, a prof said that many plants would smell that bad if they were that big. He told our Tropical Plants class at least 40 times that the generic name comes from the words that mean "shaped like a male organ".
Threaded Mode