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Amorphophallus titanum Days Away From Bloom
Photos, Livestream: 'Diva' Corpse Flower Days Away From Assaulting Humans' Senses
by Rachel Sadon in Arts & Entertainment on Jul 29, 2016 2:50 pm
The corpse flower on July 22. (Courtesy of the U.S. Botanic Garden)
A steady stream of visitors have been making the pilgrimage to the U.S. Botanic Garden, while thousands of others anxiously tune in to the livestream, to see one of nature's truest oddities: the corpse flower, a plant which grows for years before blooming for roughly a single day, and emitting a holy stench while it's at it. But D.C.'s specimen is still likely a few days away from committing olfactory assault.
New York's Amorphophallus titanum opened first, and Gothamist reports that it currently smells like "rotting overcooked cabbage" (though we're not entirely sure how they're distinguishing it from the stink of NYC streets in the summer). The line to meet the flower stretched to more than 200 people today, some of whom were waiting at the gates in the morning, after it finally opened. Crowds of New Yorkers had also flocked to the New York Botanical Garden's Enid Haupt Conservatory last weekend in the hopes of checking out the bloom, but it didn't quite cooperate with their schedule.
The same could happen here, as the U.S. Botanic Garden is predicting it will open between Saturday and Tuesday. It is "most likely the middle to end of those four days," said Devin Dotson, a Public Affairs and Exhibits Specialist at the USBG. "Granted, it could be a bit of a diva, and she could hang on to the spotlight a bit longer than that."
by Rachel Sadon in Arts & Entertainment on Jul 29, 2016 2:50 pm
The corpse flower on July 22. (Courtesy of the U.S. Botanic Garden)
A steady stream of visitors have been making the pilgrimage to the U.S. Botanic Garden, while thousands of others anxiously tune in to the livestream, to see one of nature's truest oddities: the corpse flower, a plant which grows for years before blooming for roughly a single day, and emitting a holy stench while it's at it. But D.C.'s specimen is still likely a few days away from committing olfactory assault.
New York's Amorphophallus titanum opened first, and Gothamist reports that it currently smells like "rotting overcooked cabbage" (though we're not entirely sure how they're distinguishing it from the stink of NYC streets in the summer). The line to meet the flower stretched to more than 200 people today, some of whom were waiting at the gates in the morning, after it finally opened. Crowds of New Yorkers had also flocked to the New York Botanical Garden's Enid Haupt Conservatory last weekend in the hopes of checking out the bloom, but it didn't quite cooperate with their schedule.
The same could happen here, as the U.S. Botanic Garden is predicting it will open between Saturday and Tuesday. It is "most likely the middle to end of those four days," said Devin Dotson, a Public Affairs and Exhibits Specialist at the USBG. "Granted, it could be a bit of a diva, and she could hang on to the spotlight a bit longer than that."
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