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Corpse flower blooms in Boston
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| 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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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:22:43 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: JoeProBono
You think that’s amazing, you should see the bee that pollinates it.
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:23:28 PM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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!)
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 ;-{)
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!
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:28:21 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
(Tragically,Obama ate the blue dog...)
To: Joe 6-pack
We call it the “Politician” Flower.
To: DaxtonBrown
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:30:16 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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)
To: JoeProBono
I thought for sure this was about Bobby Valentine and company. What a misleading headline.
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:30:24 PM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN
Because the smell of decaying flesh is always pleasant.
_________________________________________________________
I’m going to start calling “The Progressive’s Plant”.
Because they’re ALL about “death” and “stench”.
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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))
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:33:39 PM PDT
by
POWERSBOOTHEFAN
(It's hurricane season! Yay!)
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!)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:46:52 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
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
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
That would be a great abortion clinic present.
To: JoeProBono
Funny the plant is named Morticia.
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:50:11 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
To: JoeProBono
'........nicknamed Morticia, measures 4 feet, 9 inches tall'That just described my ex-wife to exquisite perfection.![](http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/Viking2002/010105yes_3_cut.gif)
![](http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/Viking2002/Viking1ribbon.jpg)
"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
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 ;-{)
To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN
Because the smell of decaying flesh is always pleasant."It is to me."
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posted on
06/20/2012 9:59:56 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
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