If you have time to visit the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Houston Texas, visit the Lois the Corpse Flower. Finally, the stinky flower has opened and now ready for public viewing. Only 28 of these flowers have ever bloomed in the United States. Lois the Corpse Flower is one of the largest and rarest flowers in the world to bloom.

Here are few pictures of the Corpse Flower:

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After the sinkhole pictures from Guatemala City have been released showing a big hole that swallowed a 3 story building, interests of sinkholes have resurfaced. A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or cenote, is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography caused by the removal of soil or bedrock, often both, by water.

Here are some pictures of sinkholes that had occurred around the world. First is the Guatemala City sinkhole.

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Have you already seen one weird shaped vegetable? I have seen many in my grandpa’s farm before. But I was still young that time that I did not even care to take pictures. Here are few weird, unusual vegetable shapes I found online.

Potato

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These are photos of the world’s oldest trees listed by age. Sweden claims that it has the oldest tree, about 10,000-year-old spruce. It is located in the Dalarna province.

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It is almost Halloween and pumpkins are in demand. How big will you like your pumpkin be? Do you want a giant pumpkin head on your porch? Below are few of the biggest pumpkins the world has ever seen.

Joe Jutras, of North Scituate, prepares to fit his pumpkin into a gathering strap during the annual New England Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off at the Topsfield Fair, Sept. 29, 2007, in Topsfield, Massachusetts. The giant pumpkin set a world record, weighing in at the fair at 1,689 pounds.

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