Virginia Tech "Corpse Plant" To Bloom On August 4th 40
Radical Rad writes "Virginia Tech has a second Amorphophallus titanum, or 'corpse plant,' ready to bloom and emit its intensely powerful stench. The plant only blooms once every 4 to 20 years and lasts only 2-3 days. Its stench attracts carrion beetles and flesh flies to pollinate it. See
this link for photos of the bloom." Instant road-trip excuse.
its also blooming here (Score:4, Informative)
Re:its also blooming here (Score:2, Informative)
(I was there a couple of weeks ago, and saw both.
It's worth the $12/head if you're in the area and have a few hours to kill.)
Taking into account Wind Velocity... (Score:1)
Dennis the menace.. (Score:1)
also at (Score:3, Informative)
The Simpsons (Score:1)
Re:The Simpsons (Score:4, Funny)
Bart: Not if you call them stench-blossoms.
This weekend at UC Davis (Score:4, Interesting)
A rose is a rose is rose, but nothing says geek love like Amorphophallus titanum...
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Evan "her lab is on campus; she's home today because they ran out of liquid helium for the EPR machine"
Re:This weekend at UC Davis (Score:1)
Uhm, what? I don't mean to be rude but what exactly is geeky about a big stinky flower? I'm really confused by slashdot's obsession with this thing.
Re:This weekend at UC Davis (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe it has something to do with pre-dot com geeks versus post-dot com geeks. Science was pretty geeky until somehow nerf toys displaced it. Somehow my throw pillows with electron orbitals and my trilobite collection are no longer considered geeky by the neo-geek otaku button mashers, but a web comic about MegaMan is. I don't get that.
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Evan "damn kids - stay off my lawn!"
Okay now (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Okay now (Score:2)
Re:Okay now (Score:1)
Anyway, the one in Lund, Sweden was in bloom last winter; of course I wasn't in town at the time and missed it.
Re:Okay now (Score:2)
Just Wait (Score:3, Funny)
There are more in Miami (Score:3, Informative)
There are many pages and pictures at Fairchild Tropical Garden [fairchildgarden.org]. There is even an animated gif [fairchildgarden.org]
It's a huge flower.
Re:There are more in Miami (Score:2)
Re:There are more in Miami - split infinitive :-( (Score:3, Funny)
"really looked"? ... "REALLY LOOKED"?!
Like "boldly gone"?
Look, dammit! It's ...to go boldly..., ...have gone boldly..., ...looked really cool... Is that too much to ask?
DAMN YOU and your infinitive splitting... I should have never watched Star Trek. Now I will forever be unable to forget what my English teachers tried to teach me -- them and their antiquated grammar rules and all.
Re:There are more in Miami - split infinitive :-( (Score:2)
Re:There are more in Miami - split infinitive :-( (Score:2)
Yeah, I didn't pick up on the "to boldly go" thing until I heard it mentioned a few years ago. Now it really bugs me... almost as much as "10 Items or Less"
Re:There are more in Miami - split infinitive :-( (Score:3, Informative)
From The American Heritage Book of English Usage, 1996:
The only rationale for condemning the construction is based on a false analogy with Latin. The thinking is that because the Latin infinitiv
Re:There are more in Miami - split infinitive :-( (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes, I know the "English isn't Latin" debate around split infinitives, but I also know that English is about the most irregular language out there, and extremely difficult for non-native speakers to learn well (Hmm, should I have written "...to welly learn?"), beca
Re:There are more in Miami - split infinitive :-( (Score:2)
I put more effort than most people I know to ensure that I'm using proper grammar, and I try to encourage others to do the same, spoken and written. But your take that even though language evolves, this must be incorrect, is not a strong foundation. If this has been a perceived problem on the part of grammarians for 200 years, then I would tend to say that it's part of the language.
I don't accept alterations such as "*ould of" or your own mention of "intensive purposes" simply becaus
Corpse plant? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Corpse plant? (Score:2)
This week at UW-Madison (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2004/index.html [wisc.edu]
Photos on my Blog (Score:4, Interesting)
-Waldo Jaquith
She does not have this one (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder if this would be a good gift for my mother in law...
Gotta love a flower... (Score:2)
...whose name means "giant shapeless penis".
Calling 1 800 Flowers.... (Score:2, Funny)
cross country synchronism (Score:1)
Wow! (Score:2)
(Runs for cover)