Your kids will be mesmerized by this 3.5-minute time-lapse video of a corpse flower blooming at a botanic garden in New Zealand. (The action picks up around the 1:45 mark.)
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You Do NOT Want to Smell This Flower
Unless you like the smell of sweaty socks
By Kara Corridan
From the December 2018 / January 2019 Issue
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Watch This!
This is a fun, nearly 4-minute CBS This Morning news clip about Spike, a corpse flower that was expected to open up in 2015 at the Chicago Botanic Garden. But it didn’t end up blooming–until last April! Here’s more about “Spike the Sequel.”
In Full Bloom
Amazon has a corpse flower in their Seattle headquarters’ indoor rainforest. The plant, which staffers named Morticia, bloomed for the first time last October. Find out more here!
Where's Indonesia?
Show your students where Indonesia is by clicking on this link. You can zoom into the map and see how far it is in relation to your classroom.
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