Monday, May 11, 2009

What is the name of the flower that blooms every hundred years and smells like death when it does. Tropical?

This plant is supposedly tropical. It has a very large bloom and supposedly reaks more than death when it's open.

What is the name of the flower that blooms every hundred years and smells like death when it does. Tropical?
amorphophallus titanum is the name (also known as corpse flower) and there is a picture in the link.
Reply:It is titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), a flowering plant from the jungles of Sumatra.





Link below is from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Reply:They have one at the University of Connecticut (Go Huskies) greenhouse and it bloomed early this spring. Guess we have to return around 2106 to 2108.


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