So Melissa read in the paper that the UC Berkeley botanical gardens had a giant
corpse lily in bloom. Well, we went up there to check in out, but we missed the rotten smell by a few days. Evidently, these flowers only bloom (and stink) for about 10 hours every 13 years or so. Melissa was able to get close enough to smell remnant odor and concluded that the botanists were right about the rotten smell. After the flower blooms, it starts to close back up and this is the stage that we saw. Even folded up, it was still pretty impressive.
Moreover, I got a real kick out of the head botanist who was talking about the flower. Excluding the evil villain part, he was just like Stefano played by Count Olaf played by Jim Carey in
Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events. I just couldn't get over the similarities.
2 comments:
Bwahaha! There is definitely an uncanny resemblance. What a cool flower.
Brooke told me yesterday that you guys have a blog. You guys are so cute! Funny enough, but we are starting to plan our 10-year reunion... our first meeting is tomorrow. Take care, it's good to see things are going well:)
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