It's like visiting Manhattan during the summer! (BW warning)

[SteveG]

With the heat index is past 100°F, most of Manhattan smells like this botanic bounty in DC. (and avoid the fish stalls in Chinatown at all costs!)

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/07/cor...91348.html

A giant rainforest plant known as a corpse flower for its terrible smell is set to bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden next to the Capitol in Washington.

Garden officials say the titan arum flower still hadn't bloomed by Monday morning. The garden is extending its hours both days from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. to give visitors the chance to see the flower in full bloom - and to smell its scent of rotting flesh.

Scientists say the strange odor serves to attract beetles to pollinate the flower.

This plant is about 10 years old, and this is its first flower. It will only last 24 to 48 hours. The last corpse flower to bloom at the Botanic Garden was in 2007. They bloom on irregular schedules.



and it's BIG, too!

[mikebw]

I was just thinking about this flower the other day for some reason... must be the heat?

[cbelt3]

Important sarcastic semi-political commentary in the spoiler section. miley-laughing001:

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Typical for DC.... takes over a decade to do something, and when they do, it stinks !!!
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[Filliam H. Muffman]

Is that a corpse flower in your pants, or do you need to change your underwear?

[Sam3]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Is that a corpse flower in your pants, or do you need to change your underwear?

eww... miley-shocked003:

[MartyStickle]

Sam3 wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Is that a corpse flower in your pants, or do you need to change your underwear?

eww... miley-shocked003:
OMG I nearly soiled my pants....

[bfd]

Huntington Gardens near Pasadena in San Marino grows one of those plants. It's a stinky novelty.

[guitarist]

re: BW warning--they all came out in full color. Bravo!