# Posted 4:35 AM by Patrick Belton
I WANT
ONE OF THESE for OxBlog's poshly appointed waiting room: 'Now that it's in bloom, the plant has also started emitting a smell that's drawn comparisons to garbage, spoiled meat, and rotting fish. ... "These beetles usually lay their eggs in rotting animals, so this plant pretends to be a dead animal," [the Smithsonian's John Kress] said.'
![](http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/TECH/science/11/21/stinky.plant.ap/vert.sinky.plant.ap.jpg)
q.v.
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