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LetMyPeopleVote

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Mon May 29, 2023, 03:10 PM May 2023

Corpse Flower at Houston Museum of Natural Science promises to live up to name



https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/corpse-flower-houston-museum-of-natural-science/285-ca78d8de-934a-4401-aa16-e7f1b6717320

HOUSTON — Roses are red and violets are blue, but at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, a corpse flower named "Meg" is expected, to smell, too.

“I’ve never seen a flower like that," Amia Adams said....

“The reason that it was called a corpse flower is because it kind of smells like death," Davidson said....

“Because of the pollinators that it is trying to attract. So the things that are attracted to this flower are not butterflies or bees, but it's mostly actually flesh flies and carrion beetles. so these are insects that go to rotting meat to lay eggs," Davidson said.

And while corpse flowers, which are native to Sumatra, bloom multiple times in their 30 to 40-year life span, each short-lived “florescence” only happens about once every 5 to 10 years.
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Corpse Flower at Houston Museum of Natural Science promises to live up to name (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 OP
Sounds gross but at the same time, totally freaking cool ... Hugh_Lebowski May 2023 #1
Excuse me is there something dead in here? Historic NY May 2023 #2
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2023 #3
Last update: Meg has officially taken a bow. LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2023 #4
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Sounds gross but at the same time, totally freaking cool ...
Mon May 29, 2023, 03:23 PM
May 2023

Over millions of years, a scale we can't really grasp, life finds a way, man.

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