A Live, Televised Autopsy for the Huntington Gardens' Fascinating, Failed Corpse Flower & A Special Discount Offer For YOU

The Little Stinker That Couldn't

Last Tuesday, a friendly botanist unlocked the greenhouse to let us get a private sniff of the famous Corpse Flower, on display as the Huntington Gardens counted down the hours until this extraordinary plant opened its petals and put on a super smelly show. Even though the flower was still closed up tight, the odor was utterly disgusting. All the better to attract pollinating flies!

All week, we watched the Huntington's social media, waiting for the big reveal. But the Corpse Flower stayed furled like an umbrella in August. And today, it was announced that this year's Corpse Flower was DOA. It just didn't have enough stored energy to bloom, and was starting to spoil.

If you'd like to see what's inside a Corpse Flower, you can watch its biopsy here. If you want to know what it smelled like, see Richard's expression above.

And if you'd like to join us on an upcoming Esotouric bus adventure, we're offering a special discount in memory of our unpleasant pal. Just visit our website and use the discount code RIPStinky for $18 off one of the regularly scheduled tours listed below.

The Lowdown On Downtown (8/18)
Boyle Heights & Monterey Park (8/25)
The Birth of Noir (9/8), Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice (9/15)
Eastside Babylon (9/29)
Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles (10/6)
Echo Park Book of the Dead (10/13)
Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles (10/20)

Restrictions: Discount code expires at midnight, August 12, 2018. Limit four tickets per purchaser, but you can share the code with friends. This discount can only be used on the regularly scheduled tours listed and is not valid on any others; if you need to reschedule, you may apply what you paid towards a full-priced ticket on a later regularly scheduled tour date. Discount cannot be combined with any other offer. Questions? tours@esotouric.com