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Rare "Corpse Flower" Set To Bloom

Posted by timothy on from the let-a-thousand-corpses-bloom dept.

BearJ writes "And you thought Halley's comet was rare. For the first time in the northeast since the 1930s, a Corpse Flower, or 'Amorphophallus Titanum' is set to bloom at the University of Connecticut. Check out the press release and the official page . Oh, and it's called the corpse flower due to its putrid smell, apparently to attract dung beetles. I wonder if I could find some for my garden..."

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  1. Smells by 4of12 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Long ago I read somewhere that the smell of a human corpse was considered the most repugnant to the human nose.

    From an evolutionary perspective, in the propagation of disease, I can well imagine why.

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    1. Re:Smells by WormholeFiend · · Score: 2, Insightful

      so, how do you make this methyl phenyl phosphine? (I'm assuming by chemical reaction, not by letting something rot...)