This time Australia is the lucky locale. Hundreds of peopleare lining up in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens to get aglimpse of the rarely-blooming Titan Arum, also known as the”corpse flower,” which has the world’s largest and worstsmelling blooms.
The smell is described as something like rotting flesh andits flowers can have a diameter of as much as four feet.They release the stench in order to attract insects.
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The world’s biggest and sinkiest flower has burst into flower at London’s Kew gardens. The huge crimson-colored plant, known as Amorphophallus titanium, smells like a mixture of excrement and rotting flesh. It also has a distinctive look, with giant red petals bursting out of a tall, phallic-like stem.
The vast A. titanium is currently growing at a rate of four inches per day. Its foul smell has earned it the nickname “corpse flower” at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Nigel Taylor, head of horticulture there, says, “It does smell just like a dead carcass of an animal.” Fortunately, the plant’s smell is only emitted every few hours. It is given off to attract carrion flies, while the vivid colored petals attract bees.
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