corpse flower

[nibot]

Tomorrow there will be a pilgrimage up to the Berkeley botanical garden to see a rarely-blooming plant whose flowers resemble rotting flesh. !!! It doesn't get much better than this!

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[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

the flowers just look like flowers.

the odor approximates rotting flesh.

i wish i could be there. i'm really quite distraught that i can't, because apparently the smell only lasts days and the bloom itself only a few weeks.

a rare opportunity

[vyncentvega.livejournal.com]

"apparently the smell only lasts days and the bloom itself only a few weeks."

I got to visit the one in UW's greenhouse a couple of years ago and they made the same point. Although 'got to' might not be the correct phrase.