Posted on 07/23/2010 4:47:48 PM PDT by Justaham
HOUSTON — The flower girl at Jessica Zabala's wedding is purple, six-feet-tall, uninvited and smells like dead bodies.
She is Lois, a rare "corpse flower," deemed the world's stinkiest bud.
Lois is unexpectedly blooming in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, in the room right next to where Zabala is marrying Jonathan Smith on Saturday.
"I don't need a florist anymore," Zabala laughs. "I've got Lois."
The flower is an Amorphophallus titanum, which has only ever bloomed 29 times in the United States. It's happened twice in Texas, but never before at the museum's Cockrell Butterfly Center, which hosts about 50 weddings a year.
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Is that “flower” flipping us off?
Would that be pronounced “core” or “corpse”?
corpse. as in carcass.
I am thinking “Little Shop of Horrors” right now
FEED ME, Seymour!!!
*dissolves into giggles* prolly one of my top ten fave movies :)
This Corpse flower has been on the news day and night, The first 50 or 60 times I heard about it it was interesting. But now I am sick of it. I thought when it finally bloomed they would stop talking about it but now they have the ruined weding to talk about, so on it goes.
We have one blooming in southern MN this weekend and it’s been leading the local news for the past couple of days...
Yawn.
Yeah, then there’s “skunk cabbage” that grows all over the place. DO NOT ever step on it - it stinks.
Well, whoever named the thing must have had a sense of humor.
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