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Rare corpse flower blooms at Cal Poly. But you’ll have to hurry to smell it
With its stench of rotting flesh and giant size, Cal Poly’s corpse flower attracts visitors from across SLO County.
Rare corpse flower's bloom prompts extended hours at Como Zoo
Zoo staffers and visitors have been waiting for days to see the flower and smell the stench that comes when Frederick the ...
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Rare corpse flower bloom draws visitors to Cal Poly SLO | San Luis Obispo Tribune
Willey would love to see the flower grow even larger. “You can’t push the process,” Willey said. Cal Poly’s campus Plant Conservatory is home to a rare and brief corpse flower bloom, seen ...
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Rare corpse flower in bloom at Smith College, but not for long
The Smith College Botanic Garden is celebrating a rare and short-lived event: its corpse flower is blooming — but only for ...
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Something Is Surviving
If I weren’t a person, I’d be a mushroom,’ the narrator thinks in Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night.* In Drive ...
Another corpse flower is stinking up Como Park Conservatory
Frederick, the “sibling” of last year’s corpse flower sensation at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park in St. Paul ...
Rare corpse flower blooms at Como Zoo's conservatory, reeks of rotting flesh
Visitors will have the chance Wednesday to experience the pungent smell of the corpse flower that is blooming at Como Park ...
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'We'll never see this again': Giant corpse flower blooms at Cal Poly
It's a stinky situation at the Cal Poly Plant Conservatory this week as a giant corpse flower has begun its long-awaited ...
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Austin Peay’s second corpse flower, Athena, expected to bloom soon
This summer, the Sundquist Science Complex Greenhouse will once again be the place to see a blooming corpse flower.