I like to say like a garbage can left out in the sun.

And then you open it up and, a very smelly and, and rare and big.

you know one is really neat, but two is really unusual my students and I we're transplanting it, and, we cracked it, and I panicked and was like, a little upset that it was cracked.

And then that we took that soil away, and then we put it in new soil And we just hoped.

And then I realized we have two flower buds.

So I think somehow in us transplanting it and breaking it, we stimulated that to, make two flowers which at first I thought we had killed the bulb, that I was a little, a little upset, but it looks like we might have done something, you know, pretty spectacular.

I'm guessing maybe this has happened, half dozen times that anybody has no known so I've had it on my bucket list for probably like five or more years.

I've had clients reach out and, like, tell me when they're, like, coming to, like, nearby areas.

I've heard, like, New York or New Jersey.

I've just always really wanted to see one up close because it's just a rarity.

they've always been one of my favorite, groups of plants.

I actually have a tattoo of one.

you know, from the exotic location of Sumatra.

Smells weird.

It's just got this spectacular kind of shape and color, you know, endangered plants in general, don't get enough attention and enough resources.

And so it is an endangered plant.

It's only about a thousand of them in the wild, but a lot of them are a lot less showy.

And so I kind of feel like this is like a, a plant ambassador.

and, it's got all these different characteristics And so I feel like it's, just something that, calls attention to conservation, but also, I almost feel like it's like an unusual work of art that makes you think and makes you think about biology.