Thousands of spectators are making their way to the Chicago botanical garden.
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An exotic corpse flower – a rare plant that upon blooming releases a stench similar to that of a decaying carcass – has arrived at Virginia Tech’s Jacob A. Lutz Garden Complex. The flower, formally called titan arum or amorphophallus titanium, gets its name from the pungent smell it produces. The bloom typically lasts less than 48 hours.
A live video of the plant blooming, provided by KUSA Denver, was posted on YouTube with the tag, “Stinky DBG (Denver Botanic Garden) is officially opening up!” To accommodate the crowd, they’ll be open until Midnight today and tomorrow and there is a live feed to let people see the flower from the comfort of their couch.
Everything that makes the corpse flower unusual has also made the plant well-documented by numerous researchers and other gardens.
Through the morning, staff on the botanic backyard eliminated a few of the plant’s pollen so different amenities might use it to pollinate their corpse flowers.
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The Denver Botanic Gardens received the flower as a gift some time ago, in 2007.
