'Corpse flower' blooms, ends smelly peak

August 12th, 2006 'Corpse flower' blooms, ends smelly peak (AP)

A detail view looking from the top into the "corpse flower," also called arum titan, after it blossomed for the first time since 1939 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, Friday Aug. 11, 2006. The plant´s nickname comes because of a "horrible" odor it releases for about eight hours after after blooming into a giant flower 60 inches high and 44 inches wide. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

(AP) -- Inhale. New Yorkers can breathe easy again: The "corpse flower" has passed its smelly peak. But the plant dubbed "Baby" may soon have some of its own.



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