"Lois" the Corpse Flower

Last Monday, Gemma heard about "Lois" on an NPR radio show.  "Lois" is a rare corpse flower that is just gigantic and is overdue to bloom.  She is at the Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and has a live feed on the web. We have been following it all week, but "Lois" stubbornly refuses to open.  The corpse flower is so named because, well, it smells like a rotting corpse.  It is supposed to be one of the stinkiest plants in the world, so I'm glad computer technology has not progressed to web-smells just yet.