Thursday, July 01, 2010

Corpse Flower Update

Titan arum (corpse flower) blooms in Berkeley: "Roses are red, violets are blue ... and then there's Titan arum.

Liver-colored, reeking of rancid animal flesh and obscenely phallic, Titan arum - affectionately called the corpse flower - is hardly the stuff of bouquets and love poems. It's more like the Godzilla of the plant kingdom: big, stinky and likely to traumatize small children."

Hat tip to Art Scott.
And here's a book about a corpse flower.

2 comments:

Randy Johnson said...

I've got that book and the other two that go with it.

Fred Blosser said...

And in Greye La Spina's classic INVADERS FROM THE DARK, cultivation of a gross-looking orchid is an occult tip-off that the Countess is actually a werewolf.