Washington State University Vancouver professors expect the famed corpse flower “Titan VanCoug” to bloom once again — either late this month or on July 1.
Due to a watering error years ago, Titan VanCoug — an extremely rare, massive and foul-smelling flower from the island of Sumatra — cloned itself, leaving WSU Vancouver with four plants in one pot. It was just last year the plant most recently bloomed at a record height, drawing hundreds of onlookers to the campus over a few days.
Information about the flower and a live webcam will be shared on the school’s website in the coming days at vancouver.wsu.edu. The plant, while enormous, has a blooming period of just 24-48 hours, so when it happens, it’ll happen fast.
For more information, check out The Columbian’s coverage of last year’s bloom at https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/aug/17/wsu-vancouvers-corpse-flower-blooms-again-in-all-its-stinky-glory/.
