Wally - The Corpse Flower

ColtsFan

There is a very rare sight at Indiana University's greenhouse tonight. The corpse flower, which blooms once every 8-20 years is blooming tonight. The first time it has bloomed since IU has had it. There is a live webcam stream that I'll link, along with some other info. Apparently when it blooms, it smells like rotten meat to attract pollinators in its short bloom phase

Some of you may find this interesting

Info
http://www.bio.indiana.edu/about/news/releases/2016/titan_arum_debut.shtml

Live Stream

http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=corpse_flower

EGGjlmh

That's really weird, there is one in new York that just started blooming

http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2016/corpse-flower.php

ColtsFan

That's ironic and kind of disturbing if you think about it

blind99

Awesome. The one at our garden never bloomed!

Jeremiah

That's both really cool and kinda gross at the same time. An ugly too. 

DMW

I think I may have bloomed this morning. It sure smelled like rotten something...

DoubleEgger

Apparently there were a bunch of the flowers introduced about a decade ago thus all of the current blooming. 

Eggcelsior

This reminds me of the Dennis the Menace movie.

pgprescott

Eggcelsior said:

This reminds me of the Dennis the Menace movie.

Classic! Great call!