USBG Corpse Flower: July 12

My obsession with photographing the US Botanical Garden’s corpse flower continues. My photographs from July 11 can be found here. I have tried to post photographs from a similar location as yesterday, so the changes can be seen easier. Today I stood in front of it looking at my photos from yesterday on my phone using the background as reference to try to view it from the same angles. I could definitely see changes. The fringes of the spathe (the section that will unfold and form the false “flower”) appear to be as tightly wrapped around the spadix (yellow-green middle spiky section) as yesterday, perhaps having loosened just a tiny bit. However, the green petals that covered the spathe have definitely moved further away from it. [Note: If I have named any of these parts wrong, I would appreciate it if someone would correct me. I am pretty sure I have spathe and spadix correct, but I don’t know if petals are the correct name for the green parts at the base.]

The below photo was taken on July 12 and added to blog post on July 13. I am adding it because I am posting a similar photo on the July 13 blog post, and this photo can then be used for comparison.