Good morning on this stormy Thursday.

Yesterday, we stopped and smelled a corpse flower.

An Amorphophallus titanum is currently blooming at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, so we joined the crowd of New Yorkers lining up to sniff the crimson plant.

Rancid and sour is how we’d describe it — dead fish also came to mind. After about five minutes of breathing the same air as the plant, we needed a break. Our stomach started to turn.

(The corpse flower began blooming Tuesday evening, and the smell lasts about 24 to 36 hours. If you want to get a whiff, the botanical garden advises that you go as soon as possible — so this morning.)

A blooming corpse flower in North America is a rare sight. It can take a decade or more for the temperamental flower, accustomed to the hot and steamy jungles of Sumatra, to bloom.