Saturday, April 23, 2011
What a stinker! World's smelliest flower opens for the first time in a DECADE
For botanists, it doesn't get more exciting than this - after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom.For curious crowds who gathered, they perhaps realised that a once-in-a-lifetime look is more than enough - thanks to its pungent odour of rotting flesh.The flower, nicknamed 'Corpse flower', bloomed late on Good Friday at the University of Basel,
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