Wally to Bloom in a Few Days at IU’s Greenhouse

By Natalie Fitzgibbons

Wally, an amorphophallus titanium corpse flower, is expected to bloom over the weekend at Indiana University’s Biology Greenhouse. This will be the fourth time Wally has bloomed.

Wally’s blossom is known to smell like a dead corpse or, to greenhouse manager John Leichter, a men’s locker room. The smell comes from the flies, roaches and beetles which pollinate the flower; they are insects attracted to dead meat smells. Wally’s odor is at its height at night.

“It is a really, just a unique smell. It's just something. It's not like a rose.