So we’re sitting in the big living room of Hepcat’s mother’s lovely house and he shouts out, "You won’t believe what we’re missing in Brooklyn?"

We couldn’t be in a nicer spot: voluptous rose bushes outside the stained glass bay window, a pool nearby, the bluest sky imaginable, mountains in the distance…

So HC, what are we missing in Brooklyn?

The appearance of the Corpse Plant, a plant that hasn’t bloomed in 70 years. It’s been locked away in a  special room at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens for years. But now, they’ve cleared out the Bonsai room for the Corpse Plant and its taking visitors.

And it’s not called a Corpse Plant for nothing. Supposedly it smells like rotten meat or worse. It’s about five feet tall and it resembles a squash plant. Here’s what the New York Times had to say about the last time a Corpse Plant bloomed:

In 1937 and again in 1939, thousands turned out to watch bloomings
in the Bronx. According to The New York Times, the odor “almost downed”
newspaper reporters, and was described by an assistant curator at the
botanical garden there as “a cross between ammonia fumes and hydrogen
sulphide, suggestive of spoiled meat or rotting fish.” It became the
official flower of the Bronx, until 2000, and it seems the bizarre
specimen — why the heck does a flower smell like bad meat? — can still
draw a crowd. More than 10,000 people visited a blooming corpse flower
at the University of Connecticut in Storrs in 2004.

The BBG expects lots of visitors for this stinky plant. And HC is soooooooo sad he’s going to miss it.

No kidding.