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Stinky Corpse Flower to Bloom in the Bronx

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There's a new Bronx (Stink) Bomber! Lehman College's Teaching and Research Greenhouses have grown an amorphophallus titanium [sic] plant (more colloquially known as the corpse flower because it smells like rotting flesh) and it will bloom by Monday night. The flower usually takes 10-20 years to grow in nature, but with nutrients from greenhouse workers, the Bronx corpse flower has been growing three inches a day!

Here's the webcam of the flower. The flower is named "Big Mozy," after the University of Wisconsin Botany Greenhouses and Botanical Gardens director Mohammad Fayyaz who donated the plant's seeds to Lehman. Last year, a corpse flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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  • JMH

    I don't get it, why would you go out of your way to rapidly grow a plant that smells like rotting flesh?

  • bradedward

    It looks like its dying...

  • DENNIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • guest

    http://www.carlosrigueira.com

    Deutschkurse mit dem Lehrer Carlos Rigueira.

  • guest

    this shit is a gyp. I went to the brooklyn botanical last year expecting to smell rancid flesh but it smelled like baby powder mixed with pickles. I mean it didn't smell like roses but it didn't smell that bad.

  • guest

    Feed me Seymour. . . anybody. . . anybody. . . I am such a loser.

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