The University of Minnesota has been daring brave people to get a whiff of foul-smelling corpse flower which is set to bloom very soon. The university has invited interested people to visit its College of Biological Sciences Conservatory and smell the flower blooming after almost seven years.

The plant, known as titan arum, is usually found in equatorial rain forests of Sumatra, Indonesia. It can reach a height of up to 6 feet and blooms after a very long time. When it’s briefly in bloom, it starts emitting smell like rotting meat.

The flower blooms stays for just a few days. It has the ability to attract pollinators, such as bees. The university announced in a press release that the titan arum flower will make a malodorous presence at the College of Biological Sciences Conservatory and people who want to smell the flower can visit the site after Monday throughout Friday. Timings to whiff the plant are from 9 am to 3:30 pm, the university reported.

In 2008, a flower of this type at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory of Como Park in St. Paul bloomed and raised quite a stink.

“Botanical gardens around the world build entire festivals around this single plant. Tens of thousands of visitors show up just to inhale this awful ‘carrion’ smell”, Lisa Aston Philander, the conservatory’s curator said in a statement.

According to experts, the corpse flower is known for producing just one leaf that lasts for some time and then dies back when the underground corm amasses enough energy.

The plant’s scent changes over just two days that it is in bloom. The foul smell of the flower appears to have a good natural purpose. It spreads the smell to grab the attention of its pollinator. Sweat bee can smell the plant from many miles, as per experts.