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One bloomed in the greenhouse at my alma mater last month: https://www.local3news.com/local-news/rare-corpse-flower-blooms-in-sewanee/article_fd4dcd92-03a2-11ee

• kashunstva 3y ago
  As chance would have it, my daughter is at summer program at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and she texted a photo from the greenhouse last week that the corpse flower there is blooming. The appearance of the article on NPR seems to imply rarity of the blooms; but if anecdata says anything about it, it may not be…
  • kuhewa 3y ago
    We are talking about individual flowers that are at least locally newsworthy whenever they bloom, I reckon that's pretty rare even if your average mid size botanical garden with a hothouse has a few plants.
  • cbfrench 3y ago
    I’m disappointed that I only learned about the bloom at IU after the fact; I’m just north of Indy, and I certainly would’ve driven down to see it. I wish there were an app that would notify me when one was blooming within a reasonable distance. Something tells me the audience for such an app probably wouldn’t warrant the development, lol.