 The Corpse Flower of
Indonesia
Did you
ever come too late? Let me rephrase that. Did you ever want to
see or photograph something but were tardy and arrived to find a
botanical looking a bit limp? Well, that's what happened here.
Without a
doubt, the Corpse Flower of Sumatra, Indonesia is the most miserable
smelling thing on earth. It's called the Corpse Flower because it
smells like rotting flesh. They used to be killed in Sumatra because
it was thought these six foot beauties would eat people. Not only that
but when they first made their appearance in the West during Victorian
times, women were not allowed to view it because it looked too much like a
phallus.
Well, I
arrived a few days late and discovered a limp four foot beast, thankfully
devoid of stench but looking more like something on a 93 year old lawyer
than a work of nature in full form.
Prior to
this, a Corpse Flower hadn't bloomed in Brooklyn since 1937.
Disheartened but undaunted, all was far from lost. Nature in late Summer has
many amenities
as can be seen by the pond flower photos appearing below "Sumatra's
Limpest."
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