Rare "Corpse Flower" Set To Bloom 57
BearJ writes "And you thought Halley's comet was rare. For the first time in the northeast since the 1930s, a Corpse Flower, or 'Amorphophallus Titanum' is set to bloom at the University of Connecticut. Check out the press release and the official page . Oh, and it's called the corpse flower due to its putrid smell, apparently to attract dung beetles. I wonder if I could find some for my garden..."
Ummmm..... (Score:3, Funny)
And now we're posting stories on giant penis flowers on Slashdot?
Re:Ummmm..... (Score:5, Funny)
So, next time you buy a bunch of flowers for your girlfriend, why not remind her of the plants that have been castrated for her enjoyment? (Just a thought :-)
Re:Ummmm..... (Score:1)
Re:Ummmm..... (Score:1)
Somebody's getting a piece o'dat booty.
Re:Ummmm..... (Score:2)
I for one welcome our new giant penis flower overlords.
Dennis the Menace (Score:1)
Re:Dennis the Menace (Score:1)
Hey, I tried to find a still of that scene you're talking about. Couldn't find it.
Re:Dennis the Menace (Score:2)
i think that's the closest you'll get. that's after the flower died and mr wilson got pissed.
Dennis' Sister!!! (Score:1)
Who knows, may be she turns out to be dennis' long lost sister
Smells fishy (Score:1)
Re:Smells fishy (Score:5, Informative)
You are probably thinking [slashdot.org] of the one that bloomed in Germany [archive.org] in May, 2003. Slash [slashdot.org] also reported on one back in 2001 in Wisconsin [wisc.edu].
I wouldn't call three specimens in four years blooming "all the time". There have been only about 15 recorded blooms in the United States. That's not blooms in a year, that is blooms at all. This is not a garden variety daylily [daylilies.org] we're talking about.
Re:Smells fishy (Score:2)
Re:Smells fishy (Score:2)
Timeline photos of the blooms can be found:
Here for plant 4 [rbgkew.org.uk]
Here for plant 2 [rbgkew.org.uk]
Here for plant 3 [rbgkew.org.uk]
Another one bloomed in 2003:
Here for plant 3 [rbgkew.org.uk]
Steve.
Re:Smells fishy (Score:2)
Steve.
Re: (Score:1)
Re:Smells fishy (Score:2, Funny)
or [slashdot.org]:
or perhaps [slashdot.org]:
That last one may be a different flower but what is the deal with slashdot's obsession with large stinky flowers?!?
Re:Smells fishy (Score:1)
Same (Score:2)
Another one... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Another one... (Score:3, Funny)
So to those who've not visited the SFASU Arboretum recently...
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK!
Re:Another one... (Score:2)
Sunday, Jack's frills began to open, and by Monday night, he/she was in bloom. We're not making
it's not about to bloom, it's done (Score:5, Informative)
Amorphophallus Titanum 2004 Daily Progress [uconn.edu]
Re:it's not about to bloom, it's done (Score:3, Informative)
And to celebrate... (Score:5, Funny)
Rarer than Halley's Comet? (Score:2, Informative)
The last time Halley's comet came by was 1986. It isn't due again until 2061. Oh, and there's only one Halle's comet. Bad analogy.
Ummm... (Score:1)
Not as rare as one might think (Score:4, Informative)
There was also a bloom in 1999 at the Huntington Library [huntington.org] in San Marino, CA - which they pollinated from in Fullerton in 2003.
So that's three in five years here in sunny southern California. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Re:Not as rare as one might think (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Not as rare as one might think (Score:2)
Re:Not as rare as one might think (Score:1)
I can't get there in person... (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, there's a good substitute that closer... (Score:1)
Re:Actually, there's a good substitute that closer (Score:2)
no?
didn't think so...
Yes... just not a human carcass (Score:1)
Re:Yes... just not a human carcass (Score:1)
Re:Actually, there's a good substitute that closer (Score:2)
Re:I can't get there in person... (Score:2)
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Smells (Score:3, Insightful)
Long ago I read somewhere that the smell of a human corpse was considered the most repugnant to the human nose.
From an evolutionary perspective, in the propagation of disease, I can well imagine why.
Re:Smells (Score:2)
With the exception of the skunk, they all had a similar smell. I would assume we don't smell that different from other rotting mammals.
Re:Smells (Score:1)
The worst smelling odour ever is Phe-PH-Me, methyl phenyl phosphine - It smells completely rotten sweet, like corpses mixed with over-ripe watermelons. I got fired from a university lab for making the stuff. (We did it on Sunday, in a remote abadoned lab. We though we de-contaminated all the glassware with bleach. I guess we just paralyzed our noses an
Re:Smells (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Smells (Score:1)
Oh, and the apparatus with residue after the distillation likes to catch on fire when you let the air in. It is realy wonderful chemistry.
Re:Smells (Score:2)
a stink-bomb with spontaneously combusting residue? hell ya!
Same at UCDavis last year (Score:1)
The ultimate subterfuge... (Score:5, Funny)
The ultimate subterfuge for the bodies buried in the backyard.
"Oh, that smell? It's just my Amorphophallus Titanum."
Some personal Pictures from "Opening Day" 7/6/04 (Score:2, Informative)
Corpse Flower Pictures [lazbox.org]
Nothing makes you more proud of your Alma Mater than a gigantic stinky flower.
I'm a MechE, though, so the Biology thing is still interesting as a novely.
Is it named Audrey II ? (Score:2)
Unoriginal (Score:1)
Jeez... now the plant world is trying to rip off the Simpsons. They really have done *everything*.
Triffid (Score:2)
Not a first? (Score:1)