Nothing excites and unifies the greater Denver community like the fate of their professional football team — unless it’s .
In that case, visitors will start lining up at 4:30 a.m. to see and smell the flower and keep coming into the night.
You’ve got to hand it to the Botanic Gardens, which has developed a knack for generating publicity with its exhibits and innovative upgrades. And now they’ve done it again.
But a huge flower native to Sumatra that reputedly smells as bad as a corpse?
Who’d have thought it would bring in such crowds and keep an entire region following its fate?
“I was hoping it would smell like rotten fish,” Joni Klieger, 61, told The Denver Post “It wasn’t as horrible as I thought it would be.”
It can be quite a letdown, apparently, when an experience that is supposed to be extremely unpleasant doesn’t quite pan out. But experts at the Botanic Gardens say each Amorphophallus titanum, which their website describes as an “incredibly stinky” flower, is different and to give it more time.
With any luck, maybe on Thursday the stench will be much worse.
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