Rare corpse flower stinks out California
San marino: A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower – well, tinkering around the edges isn’t going to help.
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San marino: A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower – well, tinkering around the edges isn’t going to help.
People descended upon a library's botanical gardens to catch a whiff of Allan the Amorphophallus, a plant that gives off an interestingly rancid smell.
It's rare, and maybe something you want to check off your bucket list, but it's not for everyone.
US News: Named Amorphophallus titanium, this corpse flower was the centre of attraction this week at the Huntingdon Library near Los Angeles. The event, which
A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower -- well, tinkering around the edges isn't going to help. A giant Amorphophallus Titanium opened its less-than-delicate petals this week at the Huntingdon Library near Los Angeles, an event that only comes once every few years. And it is giving off a powerful reek. "It smells of rotting flesh," says conservatory gardener Bryce Dunn. "It's trying to attract carrion flies to come pollinate it, so the more it can get that smell out the more flies it attracts, the better the plant does."