Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greenhouse glass, a fleshy spathe began to unfurl from the spadix and spread out in a bell-shaped bloom. The bell was greenish yellow outside, warm maroon inside. At full bloom the circumference of the bell's lip was 12 ft. 10 in. By this time the plant had begun in earnest to emit its characteristic odor-a sickening carrion stench...
Amorphophallus titanum is supposed not to be self-fertilizing, to require pollen from another plant. Its smell would therefore serve the purpose of attracting carrion-eating insects, carrying pollen on their legs. Last week newshawks, photographers, a water-colorist and many a botanist braved the gagging odor to watch the spectacle at close range. One botanist stood on, a stepladder, peered down into the spathe where he descried, at the base of the spadix, rows of male, female and hermaphroditic flowers...
When withering and decomposition started, The Bronx botanists cut off parts of the plant which they prepared for a pickling process involving chromic and acetic acid, alcohol, xylol and melted paraffin. The pickled pieces will be sliced .005 millimetres thin with a microtome, stained for study under the microscope. One thing the scientists especially hope to learn is the mechanism of Amorphophallus titamim's titanic stench...
...amiable old paternalist who was immensely pleased when his editorial workers recently informed him that they wanted him and not the Newspaper Guild to be their sole bargaining agent, Publisher Dealey has his plant plastered with pictures of the Alamo's Davy Crockett, with that hero's motto: BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. THEN GO AHEAD...
...Demanding indictment of the Chicago police for the "murder" of seven strikers outside the Republic Steel plant on Memorial Day (TIME, June...