Botanical Gardens Corpse Flower

Learn about the corpse flower amorphophallus titanum also known as the stinky plant at the united states botanic garden.
Botanical gardens corpse flower. Feel free to spend some time on this site. Titan arums are huge. Technically the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world the titan arum also sends up tall umbrella like individual leaves that can reach 15 feet and look.
Photo at right shows the two blooms growth as of september 1 2020. Its enormous flower spike is the largest unbranched inflorescence flower structure in the plant kingdom. Botanic garden it was the first bloom for both plants which were 8 and 4 years old.
Two corpse flower amorphophallus titanum plants also known as titan arum bloomed in 2020 at the u s. Corpse flowers at u s. Learn more and watch the live camera here.
With 27 spectacular gardens on 385 acres the garden is a place of ever changing beauty that you can stroll through daily. Watch alice the amorphophallus titanum or corpse flower bloom in this captivating and astonishing time lapse video. Amanda bennett the atlanta botanical garden s vice president of horticulture and collections shows off the blossom on an african corpse flower.
The fleshy central spike called a spadix bears small flowers in rings around its base. The spadix can grow up to 12 feet tall. The titan arum in bloom looks like a 6 to 8 foot tall flower but it s actually a tall spadix flower structure wrapped by a spathe a frilly modified leaf.
On the extremely infrequent occasion that a titan arum comes into flower the intense foul odor emitted from a tall spike of small crowded. Hundreds of people are flocking to christchurch botanic gardens to catch a whiff of a rare corpse flower that blooms once every 12 years and smells of rotting flesh. Corpse flower or titan arum amorphophallus titanum is native to the island of sumatra in indonesia.