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DENVER (CBS4)– Things began to smell a little better at the Denver Botanic Gardens on Monday after the corpse flower nicknamed “little stinker” closed on Sunday.
The same plant bloomed a year ago but this year’s blossom was much smaller. The flower unexpectedly bloomed on Saturday morning.
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