A unique (and stinky) flower is blooming in Massachusetts. Here’s what to know.

A unique bloom with a potent scent is flowering in Massachusetts. 

The Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory in South Deerfield announced this week that their Voodoo Lily, known by the scientific name Amorphophallus konjac, is blooming. The stinky flower is a type of corpse flower.

According to the University of Wisconsin, the Voodoo Lily when in bloom produces “an odor like a dead animal, the smell intended to attract the carrion flies that are its natural pollinators.”

A perennial, it is native to the warm, subtropical to tropical areas of eastern Asia, including Japan and Vietnam.

“Its scent is most prominent in the morning!” the conservatory wrote in an event description on Explore Western Mass. “Come visit us this week and check it out in all of its stinky splendor! If you’ve never seen or smelled one of these, don’t miss your chance!!!”

Dialynn Dwyer

Dialynn Dwyer is a reporter and editor at Boston.com, covering breaking and local news across Boston and New England.

 

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