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To: BKS who started this subject	5/16/2001 11:14:56 AM
From: warawls	of 62552

"Mr. Stinky" has done it again. The 6-foot-7 Sumatran Titan Arum plant at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Coral Gables, Fla., bloomed Tuesday and generated an almost overwhelming stench. It's the first time the same species of plant has bloomed and stank twice in the United States. Titan Arums in cultivation sometimes don't bloom at all, and until now never more than once. The 6-foot-7 celebrity plant at the conservatory near Miami last bloomed in 1998. Mr. Stinky's seedling mate, Alice, bloomed in 1999. The stench -- likened in the plant's native Sumatra to that of a rotting dead elephant -- is intended to attract carrion beetles to pollinate the plant. The two previous blooms, accompanied by a huge red blossom, attracted scores of flies and even a few buzzards. The plant generally blooms for about four days, but conservatory manager Craig Allen put on a gas mask and hand pollinated it with a paintbrush Tuesday afternoon. The pollen was a gift from the University of Washington, which also has a Titan Arum plant. If the plant accepts the pollen it will stop blooming by Wednesday morning.

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