The corpse flower is blooming and you know what that means — there's a rare and stinky scent waiting for all who visit the San Diego Botanic Garden only…
, better known as the corpse flower, began its odorous bloom on Friday. The putrid event only lasts for 48 hours, so the SDBG has extended their hours to get as many noses in the building as possible.On Saturday, the garden is extending its hours from 7 a.m. until 12 a.m. at the Dickinson Family Education Conservatory at the Garden.
The corpse flower is kept in the San Diego Botanic Garden's Dickinson Family Education Conservatory. Things change quickly for a blooming corpse flower, so the garden is recording a 24-hour live stream of the plant availableThe corpse flower earned its nickname by imitating the odor of rotten meat in order to attract pollinators like carrion beetles and flies, according to SDBG. In order to increase its chances of pollination, its large spadix generates heat, raising its scent high into the trees so it can attract those pollinators from farther away.
The flower bloomed on Halloween at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas for the first time since 2018, and only the second time in its 14 years of existence, reports NBC 7's Joe Little.Most of these Sumatran-rainforest-native plants need to age seven to 10 years before blooming for the first time. After that, they bloom only every four or five years afterwards.
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