If it were another Tim Burton movie, however, I would totally be excited about it!

Instead, however, the corpse flower is an actual flower that’s rarely grown, and it’s no wonder—the thing is enormous (we’re talking toilets to Buddy the Elf ginormous here) and very, very stinky. The smell is compared to rotting meat, hence its name.

The flower consists of giant, fleshy maroon petals (not unlike the suit that Beetlejuice wears in the Tim Burton film with the same name, actually) and a tall center that resembles the Oogie Boogie character from The Nightmare Before Christmas (yes, I’m completely hinting that he should do a film about weird plants here—and not just the weirdly-shaped kind! Could you imagine?).

UC Davis Botanical Conservatory staff had been waiting for the stinky flower to open up so everyone could see it—it really does look cool, even if its smell makes you want to barf—and when it did, dozens of patrons were awaiting the rotten meat-smelling plant’s emersion.

Apparently patrons weren’t that impressed with the smell, saying they expected something even fouler—but the staff maintains that the stink was even worse the night before, when it first opened.