The People
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"How bad do you think it will smell?" |  |
BOW! BOW! BOW! As to an empress bearing a chalice All bow down to Amorphophallus The only way that they can tell it Is a flower is to smell it. --Paul Zall-- |
| "It's amazing! It's worth coming to see." |  |
"It looks like an alien life
form." — Kathy Musial, Huntington curator |
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"Loved the photo coverage
and comments on the website. It gave me a chance to sneak off
to the garden for a moment while still sitting at my desk in
my office." — Internet visitor |
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"If you go to Sumatra or
Borneo to search for this flower, you may never see it, no matter
how many trips you take." — Globe-trotting flower expert |
| "Bravo!!!! The Huntington does it again!" |
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"Never before have so many people waited so eagerly to smell something so foul." |
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"It's about being part of something. Something positive." |
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"I said to my husband, 'There's
a flower in California. We have to go see it.'" — visitor from New Mexico who drove for 16 hours |
| "Good luck with the next
blooming…whenever it comes!" — English visitor via Internet |
"I can't believe all these people came here just to see a plant!" | ||
| "It smells like a bunch of
gross stuff." — 7-year-old visitor |
"Mille mercis et bravo! Longue
vie aux botanistes!" — French flower-watcher, via the Internet |