{"id":197263,"date":"2025-09-03T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197263\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:33:12","slug":"corpse-flower-named-ozzy-blooming-at-san-diego-botanic-garden-in-encinitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197263\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpse flower named Ozzy blooming at San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The so-called corpse flower, known for its horrible smell, is finally blooming at the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sdbg.org\/explore-our-plants\/whats-in-bloom\/corpse-plant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Diego Botanic Garden<\/a> in Encinitas.<\/p>\n<p>The flower gets its nickname because it smells like rotting flesh while it\u2019s blooming. The blooming flower will only give off its scent for 3-4 days.<\/p>\n<p>Botanic Garden officials said this particular flower was donated in 2016 and has never bloomed before &#8212; until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said corpse flowers don\u2019t bloom often, and it will probably be years before this plant blooms again.<\/p>\n<p>The Botanic Garden has named this blooming flower Ozzy in honor of the late rock music legend Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in seeing &#8212; or smelling &#8212; Ozzy the corpse flower can do so by visiting the San Diego Botanic Garden, which has extended its hours until 10 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a livestream of the corpse flower:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The so-called corpse flower, known for its horrible smell, is finally blooming at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,109534,109535,109536,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-197263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-botanic-garden","13":"tag-san-diego-botanic-garden-corpse-flower","14":"tag-san-diego-botanic-garden-ozzy-corpse-flower","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115141332452252457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}