World's Biggest, Smelliest Flower Puts on Sex Show

[cjchaps]

Story here

Favorite Quote: "The huge phallic flower has now unfurled to reveal its blood-red interior...and the plant has begun to heat up, giving off a pungent aroma described as a mixture of rotting flesh and excrement."

That flower is fricken HUGE! :Q

 

[b0mbrman]

Wow...that's the worst sex show I've ever seen...

 

[Beau]

Kinda made me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.

 

[MichaelD]

Science is cool. Neat post. Thanks.

 

[kgraeme]

One of those bloomed here in Madison last year. You wouldn't believe the lines of people to see the giant stinkweed.

 

[Shagger]

My, what a big stamen you have...

 

[joohang]

WTF?

 

[Iron Woode]

<<The 165-pound titan arum, the rotten-smelling giant of the plant kingdom, unfurled its single stinky flower after beginning a dramatic growth spurt last week," a Kew spokeswoman said. >>

You would think that a scientist at such a prestigious place would at least get the most basic fact straight. It is not a single flower, but a composite of hundreds of small flowers.

Other plants are like that too.

Last time I checked the plant was pollinated by flies not bees.

 

[Isla]

<< Last week the yellow shoot began to swell dramatically. It has now reached a height of almost three meters >>





"Is that a stamen in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

 

[Adul]

that thing scares me.

 

[Kadarin]

Wow.. plant pr0n. A new fetish :Q

 

[Wallydraigle]

Those are neat but, yeah, they are a composite flower, like all aroids. I like Rafflesias better, they have a single three foot diameter bloom, and best of all they are saprophitic! I have a thing for plants with no chlorophyl

 

[eleutheria]

What a corsage that would make. Your prom date would never forget you.

 

[BuckleDownBen]

If anyone is interested in this, I recommend they read this book Private Life of Plants

You can also get it as a video. It was originally aired on PBS several years ago.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

I've never even heard of this plant before. Thats really cool

 

[BrooseVader]

I'd hate to run across whatever the pollinator for that thing is...!!
(giant hummingbird stories... anyone?)

 

[yakko]

Interesting.