<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The powerful scent of rotting flesh is hoped to waft through the air at a </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/melbourne" rel="" target="" title="Melbourne"><span>Melbourne</span></a><span> garden centre tonight, to the delight of hundreds of plant enthusiasts planning a visit or watching online.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The bud of a Titan Arum plant, known as a "corpse flower", is predicted to potentially bloom at Collectors Corner Garden World in the suburb of Braeside tonight.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The rare plant nicknamed Tiny the Titan will be the third to bloom in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/victoria" rel="" target="" title="Victoria"><span>Victoria</span></a><span> in six months in a usually once-in-a-decade event.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/donald-trump-trade-war-eu-retaliates-against-us-trade-moves-and-hits-beef-whiskey-motorcycles-with-targeted-tariffs/4aa62117-1875-41f4-988f-e7024c32de81" target="_blank"><strong><span>Canada and EU retaliate against Trump, hitting beef, whiskey, motorcycles</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The bud is expected to partially close tomorrow morning and be 90 per cent closed by the end of the day.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We will monitor Tiny closely today as we expect this is the day," staff said on social media.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The spectacle has become appointment viewing for fans of the flower with a livestream documenting its every slight move.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-corpse-flower-updates-rare-corpse-flower-set-to-bloom-at-collectors-corner-garden-world-in-braeside/cf9b44cd-0ad8-43b8-a71e-1996612924ca" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>EXPLAINED:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/donald-trump-tariffs-what-they-mean-australia-everything-need-know-explainer/6b4053af-724e-4649-a574-b73498d2fc4a" target="_blank"><strong><span>How hard Trump's tariffs will hit the Australian economy</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Previous visitors to the garden centre have compared the smell to "an open garbage full of rotting fish" and "dead possum".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You have to experience it to actually create your own thought of what it really smells like," Collectors Corner Garden World owner Jeno Kapitany previously told 9News.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Back in January, </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/hundreds-visit-melbourne-garden-centre-to-smell-corpse-flower/ace38810-2b3a-476f-a9b5-5842ba608ae9" rel="" target="" title="hundreds of people gathered at Collectors Corner Garden World"><span>hundreds of people gathered at Collectors Corner Garden World</span></a><span> to smell the stinky flower and take photos of the rare sight.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/donald-trump-billionaires-lost-money-supporters-in-pictures/2f25bcae-f0ff-4de9-b45a-4a24c86c5f76" target="_blank"><strong><span>All the billionaires who have lost money by supporting Donald Trump</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Months earlier, the corpse flower </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/corpse-flower-geelong-rare-flower-begins-to-bloom-in-victoria/24c913e2-e8b1-442e-addf-fc177b222c6d" rel="" target="" title="made a long-awaited appearance at the Geelong Botanic Gardens"><span>made a long-awaited appearance at the Geelong Botanic Gardens</span></a><span> in the city of Geelong.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Another Titan Arum flower bloomed at the Braeside garden centre back in 2016.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>New South Wales had its own viewing to corpse flower bloom at the Botanic Gardens of </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/sydney" rel="" target="" title="Sydney"><span>Sydney</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The plant, which was </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydneys-corpse-flower-putricia-bloom/c761af73-c148-4006-9836-f83f39b80b6c" rel="" target="_blank" title='dubbed "Putricia" by fans'><span>dubbed "Putricia" by fans</span></a><span>, was visited by hundreds of people in January.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via 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