Friday, July 23, 2010

Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

Bride fears 'Lois' flower stench will crash wedding | Facebook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "As Jessica Zabala was planning her dream wedding a year ago, she envisioned the sweet scent of tropical flowers wafting through the air with butterflies — not the stench of rotting flesh.

Yet now the young bride-to-be from Katy worries that her wedding set for Saturday evening in Houston's Cockrell Butterfly Center may smell more like a funeral.

That's because Zabala in her white gown will be competing for attention with another female - Lois, a rare corpse flower, who's been slowly revealing her burgundy attire to thousands of spectators daily. Unfortunately, the 5-foot bloom also emits a cadaver scent designed to attract carcass-eating beetles in its rain forest home in Sumatra."

2 comments:

Karin M said...

Souvenir clothespins, a great idea! Better than matchbooks if you don't smoke. They have one of these in Kew Gardens. It only blooms every few years. Pictures at my link.

mybillcrider said...

Looks just like the one in Houston, all right.