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Crowds lined up in San Francisco on Wednesday to see — and smell — the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years.
This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday.
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Once it opens, the giant bloom lasts just 24 to 36 hours.
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The flower started to close up and lose its stink earlier than expected on Friday afternoon. [22] June 18, 2022 Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco, California: One of their five corpse flowers, Chanel the Titan, bloomed for the first time in five years. [23] June 24, 2022: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
Amorphophallus longispathaceus is a species of corpse flower, of the genus Amorphophallus, native to the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines and the northern island of Borneo in Indonesia. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] It produces a tall, single, compound leaf on a thick, fleshy stalk from a big, bowl-shaped tuber .
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