After weeks of anticipation, the Franklin Park Zoo’s corpse flower “Pugsley” bloomed Sunday morning and will be on display for two days in all its pungent glory.

The rare tropical plant, formally known as amorphophallus titanum, is known for its distinctive rotting carcass smell.

Originally from Sumatra, corpse flowers can take several years to bloom, lasting just 24 to 48 hours. Blooms can grow up to 9 feet tall and 6 feet wide.

Pugsley bloomed early Sunday morning for the first time in the five years it has been at the zoo, zoo spokeswoman Brooke Wardrop said.

It is 5 feet 1 inch tall, and 2 feet 7 inches wide, Wardrop said. Corpse flowers grow rapidly right before they bloom, often reaching a pace of growing 4 to 5 inches per day.

While zoo-goers will still be able to see Pugsley’s fleshy red inner petals Monday, the notorious stink only lasts the first eight to 12 hours, Wardrop added.

Pugsley is the second of two corpse flowers in the region to bloom in the last two weeks. Morphy, Dartmouth College’s flower, unfurled its leafy outer layer on Sept. 23.

There was much speculation by horticulturists and eager fans in the past few weeks over whether Pugsley or Morphy would be the first to bloom.

Franklin Park Zoo is home to five corpse flowers, but Pugsley is the only one currently on display, Wardrop said. It will be returned to the greenhouse once its petals close.

Pugsley can be viewed in full flower in the zoo’s Tropical Forest exhibit Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Originally published in The Boston Globe on the front page of the Metro section on Oct. 2, 2016.