Hundreds watch 'corpse flower' bloom

August 8, 2006 Hundreds watch 'corpse flower' bloom (AP)

This Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, photo provided by Virginia Tech shows a large Indonesian plant, whose botanical name is Amorphophallus titanum, or "corpse flower" in Virginia Tech greenhouse in Blacksburg, Va. (AP Photo/Virginia Tech)

(AP) -- Hundreds of visitors filed through a Virginia Tech greenhouse to get a glimpse, and a whiff, of a powerfully malodorous "corpse flower" as it bloomed.

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