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A livestream of an endangered plant's rare bloom in Sydney has captivated the internet. ... 2025 at 1:12 AM. ... But there have been other corpse flower blooms across Australia in recent years ...
Visitors gathered in Sydney to witness the blooming of a rare flower known as the "corpse flower," which opens for just 24 hours once every few years.
The plant can live over 30 to 40 years – meaning it only blooms a handful of times in its entire lifetime. The IUCN estimates there are only a few hundred of these plants left in the wild.
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 recognizable scent of the carrion flowers is produced in the petals of both male and female flowers and the pollen reward attracts beetles and flies. [ 6 ] Popular pollinators of carrion flowers are blowflies ( Calliphoridae ), house flies ( Muscidae ), flesh flies ( Sarcophagidae ) and varying types of beetles, due to the scents produced ...
Once it opens, the giant bloom lasts just 24 to 36 hours.
Lycoris radiata, known as the red spider lily, red magic lily, corpse flower, or equinox flower, is a plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. [3] It is originally from China, Japan, Korea and Nepal [ 1 ] and spread from there to the United States and elsewhere.
It was the first bloom for the corpse flower named Mirage, which was donated to the California Academy of Sciences in 2017. It’s been housed in the museum’s rainforest exhibit since 2020.