Big Stinky Flower opens in St. Louis for a few hours (senior, open)

[somersetguy]

I probably should post this here, not NJ forum..

A corpse flower over in St. Louis just opened and will be open for only a few hours. It's kinda like Audrey from the Little Shop of Horrors

It's rare, it's big, it's stinky.

The University page:

Departmental of Biology:Titan Arum Flower 2011 (http://umsl.edu/%7Ebiology/titan_arum/ - broken link)

There's a webcam too:

http://winmedia.umsl.edu/flower

[SATX56]

Yep, we've had it at our Botanical Gardens. It's a big nasty looking stinker!

[PJSaturn]

Cool. I've read about those plants before. Way cool.

[Sweetie Pie]

Peeeeee Uuuuuuuuu!!!!

[pamelaBeurman]

They smell BAD! It's enough to gag a maggot on a gut wagon.

I've seen and smelled one once and it was one time too many.

[tasmtairy]

I've never heard of it, weird looking thing.

[Oildog]

They had one in Houston...interesting that a number of these flowers are deciding to bloom. They don't have a regualr bloom 'pattern' so I wonder if they can figure what the trigger is.

[PJSaturn]

I just visited the webcam again. Glorious flower!

[pamelaBeurman]

One of these would make a PERFECT delayed senior prank!