Corpse Plant Blooming at the Zoo

[Carey]

The Bloom is starting & should be fully....ummm... 'corpsy' this afternoon & all weekend!

info on Pana`ewa Zoo:
http://www.hilozoo.com/
add: Image & story from BIN last week:
http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/0...lo-hawaii/

[Chuysmom]

Hee hee - "corpsy".


Carrie

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[ericlp]

Our Amorphophallus Titanum (Corpse Plant) will be blooming in the near future. It was 40” tall yesterday and is growing at the rate of 3 to 4” a day. Here are photos from yesterday (July 27th, 2011).

Might stop by to have a look if I have time.

http://www.hilozoo.com/newsletter.php

I guess it's suppose to look something like this.

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/amorphophallus-titanum

[dayna]

What part of the zoo is the flower in? I'd really like to just run in real quick and take a peek.

Dayna

www.E-Z-Caps.com

[Carey]

It has always been just "beyond" the restrooms (on this map, Left of the bathrooms, between the lizards & snapping turtles (well, usually WITH the snapping turtles) (oh, the entrance on the map is to the lower right, just below the water garden blue, you will want to either go through the anteater/crane/axis deer/spidersquirrel monkey/nene cage, or, I am guessing you WILL want to travel outside that cage & along the Macaw/ parrot path.....)
Map Link:
http://www.hilozoo.com/interactive_map.php

[terracore]

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Originally posted by Carey

It has always been just "beyond" the restrooms (on this map, Left of the bathrooms, between the lizards & snapping turtles (well, usually WITH the snapping turtles) (oh, the entrance on the map is to the lower right, just below the water garden blue, you will want to either go through the anteater/crane/axis deer/spidersquirrel monkey/nene cage, or, I am guessing you WILL want to travel outside that cage & along the Macaw/ parrot path.....)
Map Link:
http://www.hilozoo.com/interactive_map.php

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Here's a pic of it from about an hour ago. Looks like Saturday, it will be more open and smelly: http://www.e-z-caps.com/images/corpseFlower1.jpg

[sputnut]

ewww. I have no desire to go smell it. Pics are fine with me.

comin' your way soon!

[Lee M-S]

Zoo hours are 9-4 daily.
we got there about 4:05 yesterday...

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[Bluebird]

Is the smell really overpowering/noxious? I don't know what a corpse smells like and I'm not really sure I want to lol. It looks amazing in photos though.

[PaulW]

It's not that bad. The buzzing of the flies is impressive! Definitely worth a visit.