Corpse Flower

Now here is something I had never heard of until receiving an e-mail from the New York Botanical Garden. First, here is a description from Wikipedia:

Amorphophallus titanum, also known as the titan arum, is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The titan arum's inflorescence is not as large as that of the talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera, but the inflorescence of the talipot palm is branched rather than unbranched.

Due to its odor, which is like the smell of a rotting corpse or carcass, the titan arum is characterized as a carrion flower, and is also known as the corpse flower or corpse plant (Indonesian: bunga bangkai – bunga means flower, while bangkai can be translated as corpse, cadaver, or carrion). For the same reason, the title corpse flower is also attributed to the genus Rafflesia.

And here is a link to the live stream of a corpse flower at the New York Botanical Garden. 

And here is a link to time-lapse photography showing what this plant does. 

Wow!

Love,

Rebecca