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February 6, 2005 11:31 PM

Who farted? The dead guy? A rose by any other name might just stink.
posted by arse_hat (9 comments total)

See also Titan Arum: the movie, from the University of Cambridge (Quicktime). Too bad it's not carnivorous though...
posted by elgilito at 5:26 AM on February 7, 2005

aah, arse_hat! "The repulsive, blood red flower blooms only several times in its forty-year lifespan. The current flowering is only the fourth time this huge, rare, foul-smelling flower has ever bloomed in Georgia." It's like Bukowski poetry! I, myself, feel like a repulsive, foul-smelling, blood red flower sometimes!
posted by taz at 5:34 AM on February 7, 2005

My two new favorite chemical names: putrescine and cadaverine.
posted by digaman at 7:06 AM on February 7, 2005

Lisa: A rose by any other name smells as sweet
Bart: Not if you call them 'Stench Blossoms'.
posted by sourwookie at 7:23 AM on February 7, 2005

Great post. Thanks.
posted by dazed_one at 7:24 AM on February 7, 2005

I was a student at UW-Madison when their flower once bloomed. There's some video there (from a second blooming) and I think at the time they had some kind of webcam on it so you could preview the best times to visit.
posted by natedogg at 8:18 AM on February 7, 2005

My two new favorite chemical names: putrescine and cadaverine.
The family of biogenic amines is indeed interesting, as it also contains spermine and spermidine.
posted by elgilito at 8:33 AM on February 7, 2005

Now if the dog isn't around you can blame it on the plants!
posted by arse_hat at 9:57 AM on February 7, 2005

For a tree that smells precisely like dogshit, and whose dogshit bombs will get you from above and from below, try the ginkgo...
posted by Zurishaddai at 5:31 PM on February 7, 2005