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The Lost Bird Project - by Todd McGrain
Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
June 19, 2014 through June 21, 2016 [still there in August, 2016.
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, in concert with Project Passenger Pigeon 2014, commemorates the centenary of the Passenger Pigeon extinction with the installation of The Lost Bird Project sculpture set.
2015 Rare Corpse Flower, dubbed as “Alice the Amorphophallus” blooms at Chicago Botanic Garden
Posted by Jyoti Srivastava
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Corpse Flower / Titan arum
Nicknamed: Alice the Amorphophallus
Scientific Name: Amorphophallus titanium
Bloom date: Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Location: Semitropical Greenhouse in the Regenstein Center at Chicago Botanic Garden
This is a month after the much anticipated "Spike" failed to bloom.
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Corpse Flower / Titan arum
Scientific Name: Amorphophallus titanium
Recent months [especially August and September of 2015], has created quite an interest in a rare flower Amorphophallus titanium, also known as Corpse Flower. In August 2015, a corpse flower dubbed as "Spike" was about to bloom, but could not open. Interestingly a month later, its sibling "Alice" bloomed and delighted...
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The blooming of Titan Arum [Amorphophallus titanium] - also known as Corpse Flower - is a rare event in the plant kingdom. Before I proceed further, let me just clarify why it is called "corpse" flower. The flower rarely blooms, but when they do, the plant produces a strong, pungent odor to attract pollinators. The stinky smell is likened to that of corpse, so the name corpse flower. For...
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CHICAGO"S BOULEVARDS are the city's most overlooked treasures, and one the largest and oldest boulevard system in the nation. The 28-mile system contains 540 acres of green space, and provide a link between seven inland parks and Lake Michigan.
Although originally built on Chicago's outskirts, the boulevards today encircle the heart of the city and are within three blocks of the homes of...
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Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo
Owner: Lincoln Park Zoo
Opened: June 2010.
Area: 14 acres of green space
Designed and Constructed by Studio Gang Architects, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, WRD Environmental and Pepper Construction.
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