Rare corpse flower blooms at San Diego Botanic Garden

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A rare sight -- a flower that blooms once every seven to 10 years and only stays bloomed for two days, emitting a foul odor -- the San Diego Botanic Garden's corpse flower has bloomed, the garden announced on Tuesday afternoon.

If you want to see the corpse flower at the San Diego Botanic Garden, time is ticking. The rare flower smells like rotting flesh, hence the name, and only stays bloomed for two days.

The public has been on watch since the Botanic Garden announced the impending bloom in late August.

This is the first bloom from this specific corpse plant that was donated to the Botanic Garden in 2016, the garden said.

The Botanic Garden will extend its hours to midnight on Tuesday, the first night of the bloom. The garden will extend its hours for the sec