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Corpse flower blooms in Boston
upi. ^ | June 20, 2012

Posted on 06/20/2012 9:20:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono

BOSTON, - Boston's Franklin Park Zoo said its corpse flower, named for the odor its flower gives off, bloomed overnight to welcome the first day of summer.

The amorphophallus titanium plant, nicknamed Morticia, measures 4 feet, 9 inches tall and has begun its 48-hour bloom, which takes place only once every 15 years, The Boston Globe reported Wednesday.

Zoo officials said the plant is one of only about 30 to bloom in captivity and needs to be kept in conditions mimicking those of its native western Indonesia, including a temperature of 82 degrees and a humidity level of 80 percent to 90 percent.

Zoo officials said the facility will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. while the flower is in bloom.


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KEYWORDS: corpseflower
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1 posted on 06/20/2012 9:20:12 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Feed me, Seymour.


2 posted on 06/20/2012 9:22:43 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: JoeProBono

You think that’s amazing, you should see the bee that pollinates it.


3 posted on 06/20/2012 9:23:28 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: JoeProBono

Because the smell of decaying flesh is always pleasant.


4 posted on 06/20/2012 9:23:51 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

5 posted on 06/20/2012 9:27:33 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Indonesia, huh?

If the stinking thing is native to there I know another Stinker native to Indonesia that can escort it back and stay!


6 posted on 06/20/2012 9:28:21 PM PDT by Gasshog (Tragically,Obama ate the blue dog...)
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To: Joe 6-pack

We call it the “Politician” Flower.


7 posted on 06/20/2012 9:29:02 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Da Bro' Gotsta Go!)
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To: DaxtonBrown

8 posted on 06/20/2012 9:30:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

Maybe THAT’S why obama likes it so hot and smells so bad.


9 posted on 06/20/2012 9:30:16 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: JoeProBono

I thought for sure this was about Bobby Valentine and company. What a misleading headline.


10 posted on 06/20/2012 9:30:24 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

Because the smell of decaying flesh is always pleasant.
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I’m going to start calling “The Progressive’s Plant”.

Because they’re ALL about “death” and “stench”.


11 posted on 06/20/2012 9:31:05 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Wings cannot be redistributed, they can only be broken. ~ Oleg Atbashian (People's Cube))
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

That is true.


12 posted on 06/20/2012 9:33:39 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Much like garbage in the blazing hot Florida sun.


13 posted on 06/20/2012 9:37:17 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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To: JoeProBono

is that like a corpseman


14 posted on 06/20/2012 9:46:52 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: JoeProBono
We had something like that in a retail store that I worked at back in the mid-80s. One day we came in and it was.... stimulated.

They hired a clean-up crew to keep the doors open with massive fans and guards to keep folks (without a sense of smell) from walking off with anything.

We were closed for 2 days.

/johnny

15 posted on 06/20/2012 9:46:52 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

That would be a great abortion clinic present.


16 posted on 06/20/2012 9:48:15 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: JoeProBono

Funny the plant is named Morticia.


17 posted on 06/20/2012 9:50:11 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: JoeProBono
'........nicknamed Morticia, measures 4 feet, 9 inches tall'

That just described my ex-wife to exquisite perfection.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920


18 posted on 06/20/2012 9:56:32 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: MestaMachine

19 posted on 06/20/2012 9:58:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN
Because the smell of decaying flesh is always pleasant.

"It is to me."


20 posted on 06/20/2012 9:59:56 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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