https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/22/the-mystery-blooms-of-smelly-corpse-flowers/

Nearly simultaneously, endangered “corpse flowers” are blooming this week in greenhouses from San Jose and Santa Cruz to Massachusetts and Ohio, thrilling big crowds who have waited for a glimpse of a tall, colorfully-hued plant that smells like poop.

Nobody can precisely predict when a “corpse flower,’ also known as a titan arum, will bloom. Its blossom is as rare as it is spectacular. And this multi-location, synchronous blooming is rarer still.