Watch as the U.S. Botanic Garden horticulture team removes the spathe to set up a system to collect pollen for conservation work. Learn more at www.USBG.gov/CorpseFlower
Oh so you can use a little stiff sniffer bottle to spray the pollen across the plant as long as you're pollen's dry and then to collect the pollen get a dog collar and strap it on there nice and tight and then get a heat gun and heat it up about 2 in up so slumps down a little bit causing a little lip that way the pollen will go into that outer ring edge and you have a way to be able to scrape it out without it trying to go down the base shaft of the flower
They didn't kill it. In order to pollinate the flowers we have to remove the spathe (big purple petal) because we physically cannot reach them without removing it.
