(24 Jan 2025)
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New York – 24 January 2025
1. Medium of Elijah Blades smelling and reacting to plant
2. Wide of visitors and the plant
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Sprindis, gardener at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
"We’re standing here in the aquatic house at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and we’re here because our Amorphophallus gigas has decided to bloom for the first time."
4. Close up of stamen
5. Close up of petals with visitors
6. Medium shot of visitors taking pictures in surrounding trees
7. Low wide shot of visitors with plant
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Sprindis, gardener at Brooklyn Botanic Garden:
"It’s not a flower, it’s an inflorescence of many flowers. So inside of there, there are hundreds of flowers, both male flowers and female flowers. What makes it so special is that it takes years between blooming events. So this is the first time it’s happened here. It’s not going to happen next year. It’s going to be several years before it happens again."
9. Close up of visitor reacting to smell
10. Wide of visitors with plant
11. Profile of visitor smelling plant closely
12. Top pan of entire plant
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Elijah Blades, visitor:
"It smells like feet, cheese, and rotten meat. It just like the worst possible combination of smells. That was disgusting."
14. Wide of visitors in line
15. Tight of visitors entering greenhouse
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Sprindis, gardener at Brooklyn Botanic Garden:
"It smells because that’s how it attracts its pollinators. Some flowres smell good because the pollinator is attracted to a sweet nectory smell. This one smells like decay and death, a corpse, rotting flesh, because it’s pollinated by flies and beetles that are normally attracted to dead animals."
17. Close of "corpse flower" sign
18. Medium of Michele Olveira reacting to smell
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Michele Olveira, visitor:
"It really smells like a rotting corpse. It says ‘carrion scented’ which i didn’t realize was an actual scent but apparently it is."
20. Close up of David Hopp smelling plant. UPSOUND: "It smells pretty putrid."
21. SOUNDBITE (English) David Hopp, visitor:
"It does smell like something rotting. When I first came in here I was thinking that it smelt like a zoo. I’ve also heard it smells like cheese, that’s what I was expecting, but to me, it does smell like a dead body decomposing."
22. Medium profile top pan with visitors
STORYLINE:
Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s rare Amorphophallus gigas, a relative of the "corpse flower," has bloomed for the first time since arriving in 2018.
Native to Sumatra, this plant is known for its height and carrion scent and is cultivated in very few other botanical gardens worldwide.
The bloom, which emerged on January 3 and opened fully on January 24, drew curious visitors who lined up to get a smell, describing it as the “worst combination of smells” including feet, cheese, and rotting meat.
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