The day after “Chanel” bloomed, people lined up on Wednesday at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers for a chance to catch a glimpse — and a whiff — of the human-sized corpse flower. Dozens raised ...

Corpse flowers are massive plants — sometimes up to 9 feet tall — that bloom for only a few days once every two to three years. When they do bloom, you’ll know it.

When the corpse flower last bloomed at Cal Poly in 2020, around 3,000 people came to see it. The university has had two other blooms since then, but they were not open for public viewing.