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Titan arum flowers typically stink like rotting flesh when they bloom. The smell is aimed at attracting pollinators that help it reproduce. Thousands line up for rare corpse flower bloom near Chicago
Once it opens, the giant bloom lasts just 24 to 36 hours.
It's sweaty, stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanic Gardens, where the season's first rare corpse flower bloom is expected by July 23.
The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre (156 ha) botanical garden situated on nine islands in the northern Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens and five natural habitats including Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Barbara Brown Nature Reserve, Dixon Prairie, the Skokie River Corridor, and the Lakes and Shorelines.
The species Amorphophallus titanum, 'corpse flower' or titan arum, has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence, with a height of up to 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) and a width of 1.5 metres (4.9 ft). [ citation needed ] After an over 1.2 metres (3.9 ft)-tall flower opened at Chicago Botanic Gardens on September 29, 2015, thousands lined up to see ...
Chicago Botanic Garden 'Sunshine' bloomed, with a height over 5 feet (1.5 m) tall and a girth of 39 inches (99 cm). Sixth specimen to bloom at the Chicago Botanic Garden, but first to bloom while housed outdoors. 21 August 2017: United States Botanic Garden: Second of three plants blooms. Height of 50 inches (130 cm)., 28 August 2017
More people can catch this year’s free corpse flower blooming because there won’t be pandemic crowd restrictions as there were in 2021.
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 ...