Tag Archives: New York Botanical Gardens
The Corpse Flower: One of Nature’s Monsters
This magnificent Corpse Flower is in bloom at New York Botanical Gardens. AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM smells of rotting flesh and resembles an enormous phallus. Proof that truth really is stranger than fiction. I see it as a symbol of my research appearing as … Continue reading
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Tagged Corpse flower, Dr Sam George, monstrous plants, New York Botanical Gardens, poetic botany
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Monstrous Blooms: The Amazing Corpse Lily
It is not often that the two strands of my research, botany and the undead, come together and I get very, very excited when they do (it is even less frequent that botany makes front page news). Enter the Corpse … Continue reading
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Tagged botany, monstrous flowers, New York Botanical Gardens, Sam George Botany
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