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One bloomed in the greenhouse at my alma mater last month: https://www.local3news.com/local-news/rare-corpse-flower-blo...

I think its first and previous bloom was three years ago.

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As chance would have it, my daughter is at summer program at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and she texted a photo from the greenhouse last week that the corpse flower there is blooming.

The appearance of the article on NPR seems to imply rarity of the blooms; but if anecdata says anything about it, it may not be…

I’m disappointed that I only learned about the bloom at IU after the fact; I’m just north of Indy, and I certainly would’ve driven down to see it.

I wish there were an app that would notify me when one was blooming within a reasonable distance. Something tells me the audience for such an app probably wouldn’t warrant the development, lol.

We are talking about individual flowers that are at least locally newsworthy whenever they bloom, I reckon that's pretty rare even if your average mid size botanical garden with a hothouse has a few plants.

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