The Tucson Botanical Garden is anticipating the once in a decade bloom of their “corpse flower”(scientific name Amorphophallus Titanum) they call “Rosie.” Latest estimates are for a Thursday or Friday opening, with a bloom that last for a day and will fill the garden with the stink of rotting flesh.
You can watch the plant slowly reveal itself in real time, Here
Any similarity between this Rosie and any other famous Rosie is strictly coincidental.
Finally, the guys put down crime scene tape!
I can’t stand the punters hovering over the plant like they’re shooting a National Geographic Special with their phone.
Amatures. Get out of the effin’ way, just go buy the picture postcard in the gift shop.
Just watch out for all the Hillary supporters.
You don’t wanna be in that thong….
‘Scuse me – I meant throng!
I have a few of these, not the same type but same family. We call them voodoo Lilly’s . The flower last a week or , smell so bad I move it across the yard. After the bloom it has a nice foliage.
It’s opening right now and the crowds are starting to gather. Rosie was closed up pretty tight yet this morning, but it’s about half way open now. Check out the live feed.
The Chicago Botanic Garden has one of these. Kept watching the feed and the sucker never did open. Probably for the best. Too much stink from Crook County any day.
Was just watching it. There was a dbag with a name tag sticking something down in it and then when he left he kicked the damn pot and about knocked it over.
THAT would have been funny
“with a bloom that….will fill the garden with the stink of rotting flesh.”
and most of the yard in addition to the house? Sounds like a typical morning at Rosie O’Donnell’s.
“Presented to you by Cox“…?
I ain’t touchin’ that one.
So this is the right Time to advertise Rosie Rosy Brand Douche powder?
These are remarkable plants, but if you’re interested in ephemeral flowers, I heartily recommend staking out a night blooming cereus, particularly a Selenicereus grandiflorus which blooms only once a year and the flowers last only one night. Their perfume is very pronounced and is all the way at the other end of the aesthetic spectrum from the stinking corpse flower.
Here in Sarasota County we have both of these plants at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. If you’re ever in the area, pay it a visit: it is a special place, with an emphasis on epiphytic plants (plants that grow on other plants but aren’t parasitic) and they have lots of orchids, bromeliads, and quite a bit more.
They come in and take pictures of the flower, but nobody seems to hang around that long.
Uncle Al,
I hear ya. Midnight Blooming Cereus.
Was a giant one next to a house I rented years ago.
Watching midnight blooms with bats and stars.
These are not my pics, but close. Very close.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AS7JDXgaCVE/TGR-5cA1WII/AAAAAAAAB3k/2br5NQ1UmSA/s1600/IMG_3647.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AS7JDXgaCVE/TGR_GjVsUUI/AAAAAAAAB3s/o00QhMvixHA/s1600/IMG_3649.jpg
It appears to have grown 2-4″ last 2 hours.
Snapshot at 6:20PM EST to now
As I recall, this is the largest bloom on Earth. The plant is also a parasite.
It would seem that, even in the plant kingdom, consuming that which is produced by another leads to gross excess.
@O. Redding – Lucky you! They pack an awful lot of “spectacular” in one fine night.
Uncle Al, if we get there, will you meet us there? Been Florida dreaming all winter.
I used to love the Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota. Haven’t been there in probably 40 years. They had two night garden paintings that I really liked.
Take a few hits off that baby. Rosy O’Doughnuts won’t seem so bad after all.
It got it’s name because of the smell, it smells just like Amy Schumer’s career in comedy.
I don’t know if it qualifies me to be a flower or not, but on a couple of occasions my father referred to me as a “blooming idiot”. Does that count? Do you think that if I bore fruit I could qualify for some kind of repearations? Inquiring limes want to know.
🙂
It moved at a good clip 6-9 PM
Been very still last hour
wonder if that signals a pop soon
Just saw a Beagle pup with a great family.
Thanks for the link.
On a mature plant, this flower can be as big as a man. I’m guessing this particular specimen is young.
Knew I’d seen Attenborough do a bit on this (2.5 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHaWu2rcP94
A phallus by any other name . .