[HN Gopher] Two corpse flowers are blooming in the U.S.
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Two corpse flowers are blooming in the U.S.
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 37 points
Date : 2023-07-08 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.npr.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.npr.org)
| cbfrench wrote:
| One bloomed in the greenhouse at my alma mater last month:
| https://www.local3news.com/local-news/rare-corpse-flower-blo...
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| I think its first and previous bloom was three years ago.
| kashunstva wrote:
| As chance would have it, my daughter is at summer program at
| the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and she texted
| a photo from the greenhouse last week that the corpse flower
| there is blooming.
|
| The appearance of the article on NPR seems to imply rarity of
| the blooms; but if anecdata says anything about it, it may not
| be...
| chomp wrote:
| We just had one of these bloom in Houston:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66QcLvWBXA&t=3140s
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| If you've never seen one in bloom, you should go! They smell
| awful though, haha.
| ClosedPistachio wrote:
| If you're wondering like me:
|
| >Titan Arums have a fairly long and unpredictable flowering
| cycle, and they can take up to a decade before they flower for
| the first time. Even mature plants can go years between blooms
|
| Both are in California (one is nearly finished blooming), and the
| plant isn't native to the US
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| Another one had just bloomed 10 days ago in Washington state.
|
| https://www.koin.com/news/washington/get-a-whiff-of-this-cor...
| sacnoradhq wrote:
| There must be several at each exhibition so there's a bloom
| every 1-2 years.
| Alex3917 wrote:
| Most botanical gardens have a dozen or so, but they only
| bring out one that's blooming when they think it's a good
| year to fundraise. While it may be true that any given one
| only blooms every 20 years or whatever, in practice they'll
| bring one out when the stock market is at its peak, or at a
| big anniversary year or whatever.
| eagsalazar2 wrote:
| Is this your first hand knowledge or are you just
| assuming your worldview applies to this situation?
| hoosieree wrote:
| And one in Bloomington, Indiana. Took the family to check it out
| last Thursday. Smells exactly as advertised.
| sacnoradhq wrote:
| And the city lives up to its name. No one saw that coming.
| sacnoradhq wrote:
| IIRC, 1980's Guinness Book of World Records for largest and
| stinkiest flower.
| n0cturne wrote:
| And another one is blooming now in the Amazon Spheres in Seattle:
| https://www.instagram.com/p/CuFbYoVPuzG/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2...
| Karsteski wrote:
| Man I wish one would bloom in Ontario so I could go see it. Very
| cool!
| qup wrote:
| > It's amazing, people come from all over the place. We had one
| bloom about 18 months ago and a guy saw it on the webcam in Texas
| and immediately got in his car so that he could make it for the
| blooming. And he drove day and night and got to San Diego 14
| hours later.
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| This is the kind of guy I could be friends with.
| WirelessGigabit wrote:
| Right? I aspire to be more like this.
|
| But people count too much on me...
|
| Actually, it's my PM that tells the stakeholders that we are
| committing to these tasks in these sprints. I never said those
| words. I just estimated.
| punk-coder wrote:
| My wife and I were in Washington DC back in 2018-2019 and
| happened to go into the Botanical Garden while out walking. There
| was a crowd gathered and we found out a corpse flower had bloomed
| there. It was quite a sight to see and the smell lives up to it's
| name. It was a lot bigger than I expected.
| LovinFossilFuel wrote:
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