Why does the bloom smell as terrible as a corpse?
Plants make flowers to attract flying things such as insects to spread pollen from flower to flower. Many plants attract bees, butterflies and birds as their primary pollinators, and hence have flowers that are usually colorful and a nice fragrance. The Amorphophallus titanium smells bad because its main pollinators are flies and carrion beetles, which feast on rotting materials that smell terrible to us but delicious to them. The insects are deceived by the bloom because there is nothing for them to eat!
