USBG Corpse Flower: July 13

My photographic coverage of US Botanical Garden’s corpse flower continues. To best see the changes see my photos from July 11 and July 12. Once again, I have tried to take photos from a similar vantage point as before to better examine the changes. The first five photos in this post are taken from close to the same place as July 11 and 12. The last two are photos from new views than posted before. The front green petal seen in the first photo has almost completely collapsed, but on July 12 it was upright at an angle. The tallest green petal is clearly collapsing and is one of the most visible changes. On July 11, it reached about three inches above the spathe fringe, on July 12, it reached only about one inch above the spathe fringe, and today it even with or slightly below the fringe.

Updated to add: As I keep getting asked this, there is no smell yet. My understanding is that it only starts to smell or stink after the spathe opens. The smell attracts pollinators such as carrion beetles that like that smell. The pollinators only need to be attracted once the spathe opens, and the flowers that are hidden by the spathe are accessible.