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Related: About this forumCorpse Flower at Houston Museum of Natural Science promises to live up to name
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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.
Ive 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.
Ive 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
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Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Sounds gross but at the same time, totally freaking cool ...
Over millions of years, a scale we can't really grasp, life finds a way, man.
Historic NY
(37,859 posts)2. Excuse me is there something dead in here?
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,549 posts)3. For this thread
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,549 posts)4. Last update: Meg has officially taken a bow.