Contact: Robert Sanders
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University of California - Berkeley
Caption: A titan arum nicknamed "Trudy" is fully opened after flowering in June 2009 in the UC Botanical Garden. Two sensors of a magnetomer are visible to the lower left.
Credit: Eric Corsini, UC Berkeley
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