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Morticia opens up
By adamg on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 8:50pm
Latest flower photo from the Franklin Park Zoo shows the corpse flower unfurling, should be in full bloom, stink, by tomorrow.
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Looks like a nice flower.
Why?! Why does it have to be smelly?!
somebody missed biology class
stinky is a good strategy for attracting certain types of pollinators and seed-dispersers such as carrion eaters.
i'm betting this is similar to the gingko fruit which smells like a frathouse basement bathroom (puke, beer, more puke). but that may be a different stink-strategy...
And of course, you get to smell it on a 95 degree day!
BOSTON!
I wonder if it will smell
like leaky garbage trucks on a really hot day.
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... a wet dog, with flatulence, sitting in a moldy crate of spoiled lettuce.
Nah, not really. I have no idea what the thing smells like. But that's about the worst-smelling thing I could think of, so I went with it. Anybody have a topper?
Suldog
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Newt Gingrich
after sex.
I'm now going to go gouge my brain out through my ears for coming up with that.
Morticia likes it
Heh... I was in there last night, and the greenhouse is in the mid-80's and so humid that the water condenses on your face as you walk in. So Morticia, at least, is happy with the weather today.
yuck
That is gonna smell nasty today.. think about it, humidity + rotting corpse smell.. no one is going to wanna be within 100 yards of that thing today..
Surprisingly popular
A friend of mine got there at 8am and there was a line already. I guess the weirdness really appeals to people!
Unless they went to dunks first...