Not to long ago I put up some youtube video’s from scenes of the movie “Little Shop of Horrors”. Little did I know that Houston’s Museum of Natural Science was feeling the attention that Seymour felt when the Audrey II began to bloom. Houston’s museum is home to Lois, the Corpse Flower:
After weeks of playing hard to get, Lois, the corpse flower, has finally started blooming for an entire city of suitors eager to see her true colors — and not-so-sweet scent.
The 5-foot-tall Lois has courted thousands of visitors this month at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, romancing the public with her mysterious story as a special flower with a knockout smell of rotting flesh.
The museum’s Cockrell Butterfly Center has sometimes stayed opened round the clock for curious onlookers teased by one of the largest flowers in the world, one whose bloom is so rare that only 28 other bloomings have been observed in the U.S.
According to some reports, the flower is in full bloom. They have a twitter and facebook page if your interested in following Lois.
So…she may not look like the Audrey II, but you have to admit that there is a good chance that the person who wrote the original Little Shop of Horror story must have known about this species of flower.
Thanks to Kristi for sending the story.
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