The smell of rotting flesh can be unpleasant for most. For the Indiana University Bloomington Biology Building Greenhouse, it means Wally is getting ready to say hello. Wally is the resident ...

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When's the last time you heard of thousands of visitors waiting their turn to smell rotten flesh? It happened during the last weekend in June at Indiana University, when a corpse flower named Wally ...

Past the prickly leaves of the pineapple plants and the tall stalks of papyrus. Toward the southeast corner of the greenhouse. Into the humid air, sagging with the stench. Wally is about to bloom. The ...

Exactly two years after he last bloomed, the IU biology department’s six foot, seven inch corpse flower — “Wally” to his friends — opened up again in the Biology Building greenhouse on E Third St.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) — Indiana University in Bloomington is one of three universities in the country that has an Amorphophallus titanum, more commonly known as a corpse flower. As its name says, ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A rare and stinky phenomenon is taking place in Bloomington this weekend. "Wally" an Amorphophallus titanium, or "corpse flower," is starting to bloom at the Indiana University ...

"Wally", the six-foot corpse flower blooms in Bloomington CBS4 News Jun 27, 2025 / 11:06 PM EDT CBS4's Scarlett Ohara learned more about the six-foot corpse flower that has lines of people waiting to ...

This story has been updated to add new information. The smell of rotting flesh can be unpleasant for most. For the Indiana University Bloomington Biology Building Greenhouse, it means Wally is getting ...

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