putrid

The deep maroon skirt of a blooming corpse flower mimics the color of rotting flesh, part of its ploy, along with its putrid “fragrance,” to attract carrion-loving pollinators.

When the blooms are big enough, they can turn the water fluorescent green and make it smell putrid.

Alongside the health problems is what she describes as a “putrid dead smell” emanating constantly from the water.

There was a separate area where older people slept on thin mattresses under floodlights, and a putrid smell hung in the air, he said.

In early October, neighbors noticed a putrid smell emanating from a building in the town of Penrose, about two hours south of Denver.