At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
It was supposed to begin its six-hour bloom Thursday at about 4 p.m., according to predication by Brian O’Brien, a Gustavus Adolphus College chemistry professor who acquired seeds for the St. Peter, ...
Summerell said corpse flowers generally can’t self-pollinate, but they’ll use refrigerated pollen from another plant to try to pollinate her and gather fertile seeds to give to other gardens.