The stench of blue cheese and dead bodies at a Southern California college is not repelling visitors but drawing them in
Orange Coast College
CALIFORNIA: The stench of blue cheese and dead bodies at a Southern California college is not repelling visitors but drawing them in.
Five feet and still growing: A volunteer measures amorphophallus titanum flower, known as the corpse flower, at Orange Coast College’s horticulture department.
A huge, rare and famously putrid Indonesian flower called amorphophallus titanum is blooming this weekend, spreading its stench across Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.
The school said in a statement that the stench of the so-called corpse flower has been compared to rotting flesh, and the greenhouse where it’s unfurling its blossom is open to members of the public who want to take a whiff.
The flower uses flies instead of bees to spread its sticky pollen. It produces two sulfurous chemicals within its leaves that the flies find attractive. The plant at the college is about five feet tall and growing fast.
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