Amorphophallus titanum

[arisbe]

"It looks like something has died. It smells like something has died. It has some of the same chemicals that dead bodies produce," UConn research assistant Matthew Opel said Tuesday.

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[scythrop.livejournal.com]

I drove down to the Huntington when their Amorphophallus bloomed a few years ago. Here I was, thinking that I had a uniquely fin-de-siecle, Huysmansesque idea – off to view the corpse flower! – but when I arrived I was met with a ninety minute wait to see it. (One could smell it, however, from the parking lot.) The public does love a good, um, rare & stinky blossom, I guess.