USBG Corpse Flower: July 14

At this point, I think I may be competing for, if not winning, the title of Washington, DC’s most obsessed corpse flower fan. Everyday I visit the US Botanical Garden’s corpse flower and try to take photos from the same spots, so that I can compare to photos from previous day’s visits. To best see the changes, compare the photos below with my photos from July 11, July 12, and July 13. All the photos below were taken from approximately the same locations as yesterday with the exception of the final photo of the very top. I changed locations with it because the light was giving me trouble, especially for the top, which is rather featureless. The clearest changes are still with the green petals that covered the spathe. In the first photo below, the green petal on the left is now falling. Yesterday it was upright at an angle. The green petal on the right side has now shriveled to about two inches or so below the spathe fringe, which is another inch or two below where it was yesterday. The spathe fringe seems to be as tight to the spadix as before. As for what most people seem to most curious about, the smell, there still is no smell.