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Mount Holyoke’s corpse flower blooms again, drawing crowds to its ‘rotting flesh’ stench
The rare titan arum first bloomed at Mount Holyoke in 2023 and can take years to flower again, staff said.
- Mount Holyoke College's rare corpse flower, nicknamed Pangy, bloomed overnight Monday in the Talcott Greenhouse, drawing crowds eager to witness the fleeting, foul-smelling spectacle native to Sumatra.
- This Amorphophallus releases a pungent scent meant to mimic decaying flesh to attract pollinators, an odor staffers encountered immediately upon arriving at work the next day.
- Michael Breton, who drove two hours to witness the bloom, compared the scent to "a stinky diaper that's been left out in the sun," while others described it as resembling rotting eggs.
- Tom Clark, director of the Mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden, called the greenhouse a "plant museum" housing about 2,000 species, viewing the bloom as an opportunity to engage visitors with plant diversity.
- The plant will soon deteriorate because the bloom is fleeting; Negi, a junior, noted that this impermanence encourages visitors to witness the flower before it collapses, creating urgency.
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People Rush to Smell 'Rotting Flesh' Stink of Corpse Flower
One person entered the lush, green, Victorian-era greenhouse and smelled rotting eggs. Another said the odor evoked the memory of dissecting a dead bird. A third compared it to a stinky diaper baking in the sun. "I was expecting it to smell bad, but it smelled genuinely like rotting flesh,...
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Mount Holyoke’s corpse flower blooms again, drawing crowds to its ‘rotting flesh’ stench
Crowds gathered at Mount Holyoke College’s Talcott Greenhouse to witness the rare bloom of “Pangy,” a corpse flower known for its powerful odor resembling decaying flesh.
·United States
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