Still Life

Five years of funk

Virginia Tech's rare corpse flower, aka Amorphophallus titanium, aka Stinky Phil—which blooms once every five years—wafted a scent of rotting flesh as more than 1,000 people visited the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' greenhouses in August.

Time-lapse by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Video by J. Scott Parker | Visual and Broadcast Communications

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