World's Largest Flower

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      A FRAGRANT FLOWER
     Crowds are gathering in San Marino, California to get a glimpse - and
  a whiff - of the world's largest flower, a rare 6-foot-tall plant that
  has bloomed less than a dozen times in the United States this century.
  Hundreds of people were in line yesterday at the Huntington Library and
  Botanical Gardens to see the giant Amorphallus titanum, which exudes an
  odor like decaying flesh to attract the insects that pollinate it.
     The plant began blooming just before closing time Sunday night, and
  its crimson three-foot flower is expected to remain open through
  Wednesday.
     Some visitors showed up with face masks or clothespins to put over
  their noses. Catherine Babcock of the Huntington Library said, "It
  smells sort of like rotting eggs, bad hamburger." Others said it
  smelled like a dead animal.
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Found this item in my morning e-mail.  Think I may have actually found a 
perennial none of you are growing.  And, no Kemberly, I don't know where you 
can buy one!  If you do find one, you'll have to put it in your greenhouse.  
It's a tropical.  
There was a picture in one of my botany textbooks, but I can't remember which 
one.  There is also a photo in AHS A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants.  
Enjoy.

--Janis

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