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Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Corpse Plant

I visited the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to see the Corpse Plant, the first time such a plant has bloomed in New York City since 1939. It's a crazy weird flower-type thing with the largest "inflorescence" of any plant. The plant gained its colorful moniker because it's supposed to stink like a corpse, but since the place was very breezy it was hard to tell, though there was definitely a funk in the room (hard to say if it was the plant or the people that introduced said funk to the air).
A mossy turtle in the pond.
A mossy turtle in the pond.		 Lotus flower - polarized.
Lotus flower - polarized.		 Nice butterfly.
Nice butterfly.		 Another lotus flower.
Another lotus flower.
Titan Arum aka The Corpse Plant.
Titan Arum aka The Corpse Plant.		 The corpse plant room.
The corpse plant room.		 A very important fly on the plant. The stink is meant to attract flies, which pollenate.
A very important fly on the plant. The stink is meant to attract flies, which pollenate.		 Another fly!
Another fly!
Guy informing us about the plant.
Guy informing us about the plant.		 Another fly, not on the corpse plant.
Another fly, not on the corpse plant.		 Another shot of the corpse plant.
Another shot of the corpse plant.		 Pretty flower.
Pretty flower.
Another pretty flower.
Another pretty flower.

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