Rare flower to bloom in Houston, people up all night to watch

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07-14-2010, 11:53 PM

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Rare flower to bloom in Houston, people up all night to watch

http://www.hmnsmedia.org/CorpseFlower/

Interesting. only 28 of these have bloomed in the US. This will be 29

07-15-2010, 01:31 AM

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When is it set to bloom?

07-15-2010, 01:44 AM

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Yo that's the flower from the Dennis the Menace movie!

07-15-2010, 09:34 AM

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friday, saturday, sunday. Some where in there. Kinda cool

07-15-2010, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Houston Chronicle

Amorphophallus translates to "shapeless phallus." Titanum means "giant."

Why should I take my wife to see this? After all, she see a giant phallus bloom every night.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...g/7098566.html

Smells like "rotting flesh" eh? Sounds like the perfect date attraction...

07-15-2010, 05:35 PM

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I could not get link to work.

I wonder if it is a native plant to the US. I will have to look that up. You would not believe how many people get so excited about rare plants and rare plant occurances. There is a whole group of people out there that go ape **** over that kind of stuff.