“A giant plant which is named for its phallic shape and smells like a rotting corpse has begun to bloom in the Netherlands for the first time since it was planted 11 years ago”
“[The plant] will produce a burgundy red blossom with a giant phallic shape jutting out of it and a pungent fragrance designed to attract beetles to aid pollination”
11 years ago? Goddamn!
…and when have you ever heard the odor of a ‘rotting corpse’ described as a ‘pungent fragrance’? Oh, the Dutch.
In case you’re wondering what this penis plant looks like, as I was, here are some pictures that I found on good ol google image:
(please note the size of the man in comparison to the size of the plant)
…and here it is fully errect.
Or ‘in bloom’, in a more technical sense.
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yeah, the dutch have a thing about odor.. eating rotting fish is a past-time there from what i understand