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Amazon is growing a massive, foul-smelling 'corpse flower' at its indoor rainforest - and it just bloomed for the first time ever

Paige Leskin   

Amazon is growing a massive, foul-smelling 'corpse flower' at its indoor rainforest - and it just bloomed for the first time ever
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Amazon Spheres corpse flower

Amazon welcomed visitors into its headquarters over the weekend to see a rare corpse flower named Morticia in bloom.

The 6-foot-tall plant, which is technically called a "titan arum," sits in the rainforest inside of the Spheres on Amazon's Seattle campus. The Spheres opened earlier this year, and they're intended to serve as a relaxing place for employees. But Amazon let visitors into the dome-shaped buildings over the weekend to witness an event that only happens once every seven years (at least) for the corpse flower.

The corpse flower's name comes from the plant's dank smell, reminiscent of rotting flesh. But that didn't stop thousands of visitors who lined up to get a closer look of the plant's bloom, which lasts only two days.

Watch the plant over time reach its full bloom inside Amazon's rainforest:

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