Sentences with phrase «of the corpse flowers»

A rare blooming of a corpse flower, known for its stench, has drawn about 25,000 people to the New York Botanical Garden since July 20, a spokesman for the Bronx garden said.

Davis was hardly the first to succumb to the lure of the corpse flower (not to be confused with Amorphophallus titanum, which has a giant phallic protrusion and also happens to smell like rancid meat and bear the nickname corpse flower).

Xi's work also shows that even the genes that Rafflesia plants inherited from their own ancestors have appropriated the characteristics of the vines» genes; up to 30 percent of the corpse flowers» native genes code for proteins (the process that helps to determine physical traits) in a way that's more like the vines» than like its fellow Malpighiales».

Part of the corpse flowers» evolutionary success could also be due to their unusual parasitic behavior.

Not exact matches

This is not to say that, with the exception of an occasional tranquilized beast, posed corpse or transplanted flower, the photographers have manufactured nature.

For the first time since 1939, the New York Botanical Garden has coaxed a corpse flower to open its massive bloom and flood the greenhouse with the stench of sewers and rotting meat.

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As rainforest is slashed and burned in Southeast Asia, corpse flower romance is increasingly a matter of luck — «highly improbable,» as Nikolov puts it.

Add in the fact that they emanate the smell of rotting flesh, and it's no wonder Rafflesia, known as corpse flowers, have captivated naturalists for more than two centuries.

It's believed to be the first time a corpse flower has ever bloomed outside in a temperate region, according to Kevin Nixon, professor in the Plant Biology Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS).

In addition to being famously hard to cultivate, titan arum is notoriously noxious: When the spathe opens, revealing a burgundy - red inner surface, the tiny female flowers nestled inside exude an odor like that of a rotting corpse.

Umpteen cars in flames, umpteen corpses, mass destruction of the obligatory flower stands, fruit carts, and sidewalk cafes and NO ONE calls the cops?

The discovery at the outset of Anne's corpse - laid out on a bed, decked in flowers - casts a morbid shadow over the movie, and how she got there is shown as a prolonged flashback.

Look for the telltale pillars of purple haze that usually mark corpses and loot boxes; if you aim at these markers, your Focus will tell you what they are, so you can quickly identify the metal flower.

She began hurling insults at her husband — chastising him for all lost time, for his appalling selfishness, for his unfinished paintings, for the disappointment sprawled across the empty white plains of canvas, for his devastating laziness, his unconvincing simulacrum of a corpse — a somber flower next to a withering thorn.

Information about this exhibition is sparse, but it's teased with an intriguing painting: The Breed (2017), an image of the so - called corpse flower that bloomed last year in the New York Botanical Garden.