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Smelly Flower Returns To OSU Greenhouse

Two years after its stinking debut, Ohio State’s first Titan Arum plant is back in bloom at the Biological Sciences Greenhouse Facility. The plant is better known as a Corpse Flower because of its offensive smell. It’s named Woody for the university’s iconic football coach. Click on the "Listen to the story" bar at the top of the page for a variety of comments from visitors to the greenhouse about the flower.