Visitors crowded the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Friday, January 24, to catch a glimpse of the blooming Amorphophallus gigas, also known as a “corpse flower,” due to its unique stench.

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And you can watch a time-lapse video of a corpse flower blooming at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC below (which, fortunately, does not come with smell-o-vision).

The early-blooming specimens have just blossomed, with sixteen kinds of cherries now in flower. According to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s cherry blossom tracker, many trees are in peak bloom ...

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But we have more than 220 cherry trees here at Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Primarily two varieties. There's the yoshino, which tend to flower earlier and have a lighter, more delicate petal.