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Crowds lined up in San Francisco on Wednesday to see — and smell — the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years.
Once it opens, the giant bloom lasts just 24 to 36 hours.
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The flower started to close up and lose its stink earlier than expected on Friday afternoon. [22] June 18, 2022 Conservatory of Flowers, San Francisco, California: One of their five corpse flowers, Chanel the Titan, bloomed for the first time in five years. [23] June 24, 2022: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
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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 ...
These flowerings can attract crowds of thousands of visitors, and in the 21st century also thousands on Internet live streaming, [25] and inspired the designation of the titan arum as the official flower of the Bronx in 1939 (replaced in 2000 by the day lily). [26] In the Botanical Gardens of Bonn, the titan arum has been cultivated since 1932 ...
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