Coral Gables, FL -- The city of Coral Gables, Florida, is about to get skunked by a odoriferous plant named "Mr. Stinky" and his equally smelly friend, "Audrey III."

The two plants housed in the Fairchild Tropical Garden are a type of tuber known as "Amorphophallus titanum" renowned for the horrible stench that wafts from its flowers.

Both "Mr. Stinky" and "Audrey III" are set to bloom in the next few weeks -- the first time two such plants have bloomed together in a public garden.

This is also the third time "Mr. Stinky" has produced a flower, another first.

A spokeswoman says the garden expects thousands of guests will come to catch a whiff of the bloom's scent -- which has been described as "rotting elephant corpse."

She says the stink is the big draw for the crowd but, "everyone pretty much holds their nose."

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