८ जून, २००५

Corpse-flower-blogging.

I stopped by the UW greenhouse to get a look at the Titan Arum. Go to the official site for some nice shots of the whole thing, for live streaming, and for information about how big it is now -- 97 1/2 inches -- and when it's going to start to stink up the whole campus. Here are a couple of my pictures. Growing past the tape measure:

At the UW Greenhouse

A closeup:

At the UW Greenhouse

UPDATE: Chris emails:
The Corpse Flower kind of looks like this image from the back of the "Little Earthquakes" CD case.

९ टिप्पण्या:

Meade म्हणाले...

Nice photos. But what do they have to do with female orgasms?

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

If you look long enough, I'm sure you'll figure something out.

Meade म्हणाले...

Sounds elusively improbable as all get out. I should maybe just go back and finish my study of Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York.

Yogo म्हणाले...

Does it have anything to do with the gross blogad?

goesh म्हणाले...

It is phallic looking

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Nappy: You don't like the pie fight ad? It ends today. You wouldn't believe how much more that ad was clicked on than the other two ads.

Meade म्हणाले...

Ahh, the unmistakably odoriferous Stinkhorn Mushroom Phallus impudicus, which really does emit the pungent scent of smegma, attracting... spore carriers.

Yogo म्हणाले...

Ann, seems like I wasn't the only one irritated with the pie fight ad.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8169264

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Nappy: Thanks. I actually was never able to get the thing to play, so I only saw the starting image. So they throw pies at each other? The fixed image seemed fine to me, and no one had to click on it.