Something stinks at the Houston Museum of Natural Science — and it's a flower.
– Something stinks at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, but the stench is actually attracting visitors instead of keeping them at bay., which is located at 555 Hermann Park Drive.
Blooms only last for a couple of days so if you want to go see Meg and smell her not-so-sweet stench, you’ll have to make the trip soon. You can also see a video of the flower in the media player at the top of this article. The flower is still open and in bloom, but the smell has mostly dissipated since yesterday, museum officials said in a statement to KSAT on Thursday.
Fewer than 1,000 corpse flowers are estimated to remain in the wild, with a sharp decline in the last century, according to theThe plants are native to the rainforests of Sumatra in Indonesia and can take more than 10 years to bloom for the first time. “The plants frequently grow up to 8 feet tall in cultivation. Its putrid smell is most potent during peak bloom at night into the early morning. The odor is often compared to the stench of rotting flesh,” the U.S. Botanic Garden website states.
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