Is the corpse flower finally blooming? (Houston, Texas)

Houston Chronicle ^ | July 13, 2010 | Kathy Huber

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The corpse flower appears to be finally coming out of her shell. Lois, the giant smelly flower, is starting to give off some nasty odors and bulging toward a bloom, flower-watchers at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, both official and not official, are twittering at this hour.

We're keeping our sights on the Hermann Park oddity...

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Corpse Flower PING

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Ewww, it smells worse than a Code Stink Hates America rally.

[BuckyKat]

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That play is staged next door (free) in the park.

http://www.milleroutdoortheatre.com/schedule/calendarfull.asp?monthview=3

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*Little Shop of Horrors
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*Little Shop of Horrors
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*Little Shop of Horrors
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*Little Shop of Horrors
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*Little Shop of Horrors
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[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

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I'm waiting for them to get some triffids.

[JPG]

Thanks God it’s not blooming at a Code Pink rally...no one would notice.

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"Go to school and study hard, little boy. Or someday you may be standing guard duty watching over a stinky plant."

[BuckyKat]

That play is staged next door (free) in the park.

Love it!

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You’ll find blooming idiots at a Code Pink rally.

[Hodar]

Instead of waiting years to smell that flower; why not come to Salt Lake City any day of the week and enjoy the stench on Antelope Island.

Not only do we have the smell, we also have biting flies, barren wasteland without fresh water or bathrooms, $9/car park fee and a Park movie featuring bad poetry.

[Ditter]

Yikes he not only stink but it is ugly as well! There is some kind of a vine that grows here (Houston) with trumpet shaped flowers that stinks like rotten flesh. It is much smaller than this monster and I don’t remember the name.

[JoeProBono]

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We can just go down the road from the museum to ‘Stinkadena’.

[JoeProBono]

Dracunculus vulgaris: smells like rotting flesh, and has a burgundy-colored, leaf-like flower that projects a slender, black appendage

[Ditter]

Nope that’s not it. As I recall the blooms hang down and are shaped like trumpets. I’ll have to go look on the neighbors fence where I saw it a few years ago.

[Tax-chick]

We have one of these at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte greenhouses. It bloomed earlier this year.

[februus]

Oh God, for a minute there I thought this was about Teddy Kennedy. Carry on.