Corpse flower at Panaewa Zoo

[PaulW]

I was there this morning too, and the smell is strong but it doesn't travel far. Try sticking your head though the opening. And see all the flies inside the enclosure!

[whalesong]

Here is a great picture of the bloom that Damon Tucker took, for those who can't make it down to the zoo to see it.

http://damontucker.com/2011/04/24/the-co...of-hawaii/

[Nalu]

Was there around 3:00 pretty phenomenol although the smell was very faint, even with sticking my face in the enclosure.

[Nalu]

That picture isn't of the bloom I saw today, I think he pulled it from wikipedia, the one at the zoo looked totally different. I took a video but not sure if I can load it on here.

[oink]

He credits wikipedia. It's not the one blooming locally.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[Guest]

Here is a short video of the bloom that we took today.
http://youtu.be/riw7NSgsmus?hd=1

[Kapohocat]

What an incredible flower - Thanks for the video afw!

One of the articles said it is on loan from somewhere. How do they propagate these?

[PaulW]

The grower lives on the Big Island. On Sunday morning he was there cutting into the bottom of the plant (you can see the cuts on the video), doing something to help with fertilization. It was a complicated business.

[hawaiideborah]

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Originally posted by afwjam

Here is a short video of the bloom that we took today.
http://youtu.be/riw7NSgsmus?hd=1

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your video did it for me, we are on our way down to see it right now. I will post when we return as to how it is doing today. Thanks for the video.

We grew some of this same species in my garden in Washington state. They were BLACK and aout 3 feet tall. Really beautiful, looked sorta like a black calla lilly. They were easy to separate and re-plant. Our whole neighborhood had them. the only problem was the smell and the flies. We just planted them at the edges of the yard where we could easily see them and were far enough that there was no problem with smell or flies.
I think if we could grow the small ones in Washington state nearby salt water, then we could also grow the small ones here in Puna?
The small black ones were incredible, stunning.

Will report back on the bloom after seeing it today.

[Greg]

To honor this rare event, my teenage daughter has hidden something in her room that replicates the smell. All this on top of last months arrangement of her room to look like the Japanese earthquake. I can only hope that Kilauea stays quite!

edit; Sp.