Monday, June 14, 2010

Don't you just love the smell of rotting flesh?

No? Then you're probably unlikely to enjoy the corpse flower, Amorphophallus titanum, which is currently blooming at the local 4-H Children's garden.

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And here, Jeneric shows us how to find a corpse flower and how to pronounce the latin name.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Great pics of the Corpse plant-I've been educated again. was there supposed to be a video as well? My invisible glasses aren't working this morning. Love you all.
Grammy

Priscilla Hockin Brown said...

Miss the gardens. I used to eat lunch outside all the time or visit the butterflies. Ahhh.

Barbit said...

Nice photo of the flower and toddler Wily's response. Also like the new blog template!