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What Stinks More Than Pinky?
Very few people have been blessed enough to catch the corpse flower at its most powerful fragrance. Most bizarre to the general public is that when the flower is fully open, it emits the nauseating fragrance of rotten meat (hence its Indonesian common name ‘Bunga Bangkai’). The odor begins on opening of the inflorescence and lasts for about 8 hours. The flower typically stays open 18 hours to two days. The stench, strongest at night, is there to attract pollinators, thought to be carrion beetles and sweat bees in the wild.
Very few people have been blessed enough to catch the corpse flower at its most powerful fragrance. Most bizarre to the general public is that when the flower is fully open, it emits the nauseating fragrance of rotten meat (hence its Indonesian common name ‘Bunga Bangkai’). The odor begins on opening of the inflorescence and lasts for about 8 hours. The flower typically stays open 18 hours to two days. The stench, strongest at night, is there to attract pollinators, thought to be carrion beetles and sweat bees in the wild.
