Adelaide Botanic Gardens Corpse flower blooms with thousands queuing to smell ‘rotting flesh’ plant
Thousands line up for a sniff of the world’s STINKIEST flower – which reeks of rotting flesh, off cheese AND dead fish
- A ‘corpse flower’ has bloomed at Adelaide Botanic Gardens in South Australia
- The flower produces a foul-smellign odour likened to rotting flesh when in bloom
- An estimated 1,500 visitors flooded the park to get a glimpse of the rare flower
A rare ‘corpse flower’ in bloom is drawing thousands of visitors keen to take a sniff of the bizarre plant’s distinctive rotting flesh smell.
The Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia, has been flooded with visitors after its rare Titum Arum bloomed overnight on Sunday.
The Amorphophallus titanum takes 10 years to grow from a seed and releases a putrid odour when it reaches peak bloom.
It only blooms every three to five years thereafter.
Thousands of visitors flocked to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens overnight after its ‘corpse flower’ began to bloom and release its distinctive pungent smell
The Amorphophallus titanum is known as the corpse flower due to its foul-smelling odour, which has been likened to rotting flesh and fermented cheese
The foul smell is designed to attract carrion flies to its impressive flower for pollination by imitating the stench of a dead animal.
The Botanic Gardens said the flower started to open at 2pm on Sunday and was completely open and releasing its infamous smell by 5pm.
Horticultural curator at the gardens Matt Coulter explained the flower reaches its peak stench in the first 24 hours of flowering and usually wilts within 48 hours.
Mr Coutler said the gardens stayed open late on Sunday to accommodate some 1,500 onlookers.
‘It was amazing to be able to show the public what an amazing plant this is,’ Mr Coulter told the ABC.
‘Some people commented last night it doesn’t look real, it looks man-made, it’s just so…
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