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The Corpse Flower: Behind the Stink | National Geographic


I’m interested to see these stinky
corpse II smell according to this
brochure a stinky plant with dead
rotting meat so I’m going to assume if
it’s in bloom it’s going to stink we’re
displaying a tightening Arab the Latin
name for this plant is a morph a phallus
titanium it’s a really awesome plant
that was first discovered to Western
science in the late 1800s by an Italian
explorer in Sumatra Indonesia it’s got
this crazy disgusting smell the in fact
the Indonesian name for the plant
directly translates as corpse flower and
it smells like a rotting corpse the peak
smell usually comes within just a couple
of hours of opening so as soon as it’s
open enough starts generating the stench
and that Peaks probably about three or
four hours later the way the flower
works is it has two rungs of flowers
down in its base and the female flowers
are the first ones to start and their
strategy is to put the cattle call out
to every carrion fly beetle sweat five
they think that they’re running towards
a rotting corpse which is what they love
they like to eat them they like to lay
eggs and then they like to have a great
time in them so pulses that smell out to
get insects in it hopefully already have
pollen on them from a previous plant
that was in the male cycle somewhere in
the area so they come in the heat
generates the smell it’s just
overwhelmingly wonderful for them the
plant only releases the putrid smell for
two nights
the insects actually kind of get trapped
inside the plant and then the male
flowers open up it’s already got the
pollinators inside it doesn’t need to
make anymore smell so after that first
12 hours it’s got what it needs in there
it starts raining pollen down on them
and then it can let them go it kind of
starts easing up after the flowers been
open about
24:36 hours and the Beatles can escape
again with pollen on them
it didn’t smell that bad actually I
didn’t smell any really bad odor but I
guess it was we got close enough we
weren’t that close it wasn’t as strong
as I thought it would be but I get kind
of smell it and it smelled like a
mixture of like maggots and really
smelly feet fortunately for the public
the plant produces its most odoriferous
emissions in the middle of the night
from about midnight to 4:00 a.m. so
nobody will be around so during the day
when the visitors come in it’s going to
be just a bit less of that smell and so
if people will smell it and we have the
plant is in a rather large greenhouse
and that will dilute the smile a little
bit but people should be able to smell
it no problem every now and then I
caught like a little whiff and went whoa
yeah well also I don’t really we don’t
really smell rotten flesh all that often
just alone it was cool to look at
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