Another Corpse Flower Could Come Alive Soon at Chicago Botanic Garden (VIDEO)

GLENCOE, IL―Call it Night of the Living Flower Bed at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Sprout, a corpse flower on display in the Semitropical Greenhouse, could be close to blooming, just seven months after fellow flower Alice opened up, according to a garden release.

Keep track of Sprout's progress with the Chicago Botanic Garden's live-streaming webcam:

Corpse flowers, which also go by the name titan arum, are one other largest, rarest flowering plants in the world, and it can take almost 10 years for it to bloom. And when a plant finally blooms―usually overnight―it only stays open for around a day to 36 hours.

Besides its shyness, the corpse flower other claim to fame is the sickening odor it emits when it blooms, an odor that is not unlike a dead and rotting body.

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“You don’t see many institutions have multiple plants blooming within months of each other,” Tim Pollak, an outdoor floriculturist who has been tending to the garden's corpse flowers, said in the release.

The botanic garden has 13 of the plants, which are native to western Sumatra, Indonesia, in its collection. Corpse flowers can reach 6 to 8 feet tall, with blooms about 3 feet in diameter and sometimes as large as 5 feet in the wild. Alice was 55 inches tall when she bloomed.

Sprout shares space with Alice—the first corpse flower to bloom in the Chicago area when it opened in September―and a nameless, non-flowering titan arum.

If Sprout ... sprouts, visitors will be able to stay until 2 a.m. in order to experience the corpse flower's base bloom bouquet at its peak. During that time, visitors will only be allowed in the Semitropical Greenhouse.

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But corpse flowers can be persnickety, unpredictable plants. Spike, which entered its bloom cycle a month before Alice last year, needed to be manually opened by the staff so its pollen could be extracted and used to pollinate Alice.

Want to check in on Sprout, but can't make it to Glencoe? The garden has a webcam live-streaming the plant on its YouTube channel and its website. You also can keep track of Sprout's progress on social media by signing up for updates or following at #CBGSprout and #TitanWatch.

PHOTO: Spike, one of Chicago Botanic Garden's 13 corpse flowers. (Chicago Botanic Garden)