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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 ...
Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower, [2] or giant padma, [3] Its local name is Petimum Sikinlili. It is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia within the family Rafflesiaceae. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth. [4] It has a strong and unpleasant odor of decaying flesh. [5]
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.
A corpse flower "Lupin" named after Harry Potter's Remus Lupin (lupin being wolf in Latin) to honor NC State (whose athletic teams are known as the Wolfpack) bloomed on August 1, 2019. August 15, 2019 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA "Little Eva", one of three corpse flowers came from the Huntington Botanical Gardens, opened. The others ...
Once it opens, the giant bloom lasts just 24 to 36 hours.