04-24-2011, 12:46 AM
this rather phallic plant stinks like hell. it smells like a dead body and can be smelled half a mile away. blech.
DailyMail
For botanists, it doesn't get more exciting than this - after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom.
For curious crowds who gathered, they perhaps realized that a once-in-a-lifetime look is more than enough - thanks to its pungent odor of rotting flesh.
The flower, nicknamed 'Corpse flower', bloomed late on Good Friday at the University of Basel, Switzerland and is expected to remain open until Easter Sunday.
The eight foot plant, which is indigenous to Sumatra's rainforests in Indonesia, has the largest unbranched shoot in the world. On average, they bloom once in a decade.
we don't have smell-a-post yet. good thing. click for ick
DailyMail
For botanists, it doesn't get more exciting than this - after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom.
For curious crowds who gathered, they perhaps realized that a once-in-a-lifetime look is more than enough - thanks to its pungent odor of rotting flesh.
The flower, nicknamed 'Corpse flower', bloomed late on Good Friday at the University of Basel, Switzerland and is expected to remain open until Easter Sunday.
The eight foot plant, which is indigenous to Sumatra's rainforests in Indonesia, has the largest unbranched shoot in the world. On average, they bloom once in a decade.
we don't have smell-a-post yet. good thing. click for ick