San Diego Botanic Backyard is witnessing the uncommon blooming of its konjac plant – a smaller, relative of the corpse plant – in its Dickinson Household Schooling Conservatory Feb. 16 and Feb. 17. The Amorphophallus konjac, additionally generally known as voodoo lily, satan’s tongue, or elephant yam, additionally emits a rotting flesh scent because it blooms, to draw the carcass-eating bugs that pollinate it. The Backyard’s workers first noticed a bloom spike, or inflorescence, rising from the soil on Feb. 5. It has been at the least six years since a konjac has bloomed on the Backyard.