Posted on 11/09/2008 10:52:27 AM PST by Daffynition
MILWAUKEE -- Officials at the Milwaukee Public Museum expect the so-called "corpse flower" to bloom very soon.
The museum's curator of botany, Neil Luebke (LIHB'-kee), says chances are good the titan arum will bloom Monday afternoon, close early Tuesday, open again that afternoon and then close for good sometime Wednesday.
The flower is known for its odor of rotting flesh. It comes in waves and attracts carrion beetles and sweat bees in its native rain forests of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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The museum obtained the plant in 2002 from a seed produced by University of Wisconsin-Madison's flower. It takes six or more years to flower and this will be its first flowering.
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It’s like the economy, first the media scream “it’s collapsed!”, then after everyone loses interest (and BO wins), it’s OK. The ‘Corpse Flower’, perfect symbol for these times.
That is soooooooooo C-O-O-L!
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