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Visitors will have the chance Wednesday to experience the pungent smell of the corpse flower that is blooming at Como Park ...
Frederick the corpse flower, a rare, stinky plant at the Como Zoo Conservatory, has started to bloom. That means you now have ...
Frederick, the “sibling” of last year’s corpse flower sensation at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park in St. Paul ...
Zoo staffers and visitors have been waiting for days to see the flower and smell the stench that comes when Frederick the ...
Frederick the corpse flower is blooming now at Como Park Zoo. It’s one of the largest and smiest on earth. White House reacts ...
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Rare corpse flower blooming at Como Zoo
One of the rare, stinky corpse flowers at the Como Zoo Conservatory is blooming. The flower only blooms once every two to three years, lasting just 24 to 48 hours.
Another corpse flower is now in bloom at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul. The zoo has named the flower Frederick — it is 8 years old and around 80 inches tall.
Como representatives say this plant is the sibling of the conservatory's other corpse flower, "Horace," which last unleashed ...
Frederick the Corpse Flower at Como Park Zoo is about to bloom, standing over 71 inches tall and ready to wow visitors with ...
Do you remember Horace, Como Zoo's famously stinky flower? Well, it turns out Horace has a brother, Frederick, who promises to smell nearly as bad.
Corpse flowers give off the intense smell to attract pollinators in nature, which include carrion beetles and flies.