 The Titan Arum bloom attracted 10,000 visitors |
More than 10,000 people have braved the overpowering pong of a flower which blooms every 20 years. The Botanic Garden in Cambridge extended its opening hours to allow people in to see the 1.6m Titan Arum.
Another 250,000 people logged on to the garden's website to catch the blood-red bloom, found in Sumatra's rainforests, which smells of rotting flesh.
When a similar flower bloomed at Kew Gardens in 1926 the police had to be called to control the crowds.
By Monday evening the blooming, which began on Thursday, was nearly over.
The gates of the garden stayed open until 2400 BST to allow the flood of visitors in to see the first flowering of theTitan Arum - or Amorphophallus titanum .
A spokesman said to the best of their knowledge, only the Royal Botanic Gardens at Edinburgh and Kew had managed to bring the plant to bloom in the UK.
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