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Visitors to Australia’s Geelong Botanic Gardens got a big whiff of a vile stench over the past couple days, all stemming from the short-lived bloom of a corpse flower.
This plant was only gifted to Geelong Botanic Garden in 2021 from the State Herbarium in Adelaide, South Australia, and for years horticulturalists have been watching and waiting for signs of a ...
The titan arum plant, housed in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney, blooms only once every few years for just 24 hours. Affectionately dubbed Putricia, it will release a smell described as "wet ...
Because its flower blooms infrequently and only for a short period, it gives off a powerful scent of rotting flesh to attract pollinators. As a consequence, it is characterized as a carrion flower, earning it the names corpse flower or corpse plant. The titan arum was first brought to flower in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in ...
The gardens were first set aside as a public space in 1850, taking up the whole of today's Eastern Park. The botanic gardens were later isolated to a fenced-off area in the centre of the park. While the origin story of the Geelong Botanic Gardens can be traced back to as early as 1850, the land it was built upon has an even richer history.
Rafflesiaceae flowers mimic rotting carcasses in scent, color, and texture to attract their pollinators, carrion flies. For this reason, some flowers of the family Rafflesia are nicknamed "corpse flowers". Most members of Rafflesiaceae possess a large, bowl-shaped floral chamber formed by a perianth tube and a diaphragm. This diaphragm is the ...
An amorphophallus titanium flower, also known as "corpse flower" (Bunga Bangkai in Bahasa Indonesia), renowned for its foul odor reminiscent of rotting flesh, is set to bloom at the Royal Botanic ...
Once it opens, the giant bloom lasts just 24 to 36 hours.