Corpse Flower

Don’t let it’s name fool you. The titan arum is a flower both exotic and beautiful. The problem is its fragrance. The intriguing flower’s not-so-pretty name comes from the fact that it stinks. It smells like rotting flesh.

One little stinky flower might not draw a lot of attention but the corpse flower is not a little flower. 

During its flowering phase, when it is most aromatic, the bloom can be more than eight feet tall and ten feet wide. That’s a pretty exotic statistic in and of itself but there’s so much more to this spectacular plant.

It’s big, it’s beautiful, and it stinks. 

We know it’s fascinated people for well over a hundred years but it’s probably been fascinating for many thousands of years before that. 

This plant is so rare and so exotic that every bloom makes headlines around the world and the only place to be sure to see a bloom from this mystifying beauty is at one of the many formal botanical gardens cultivating them. 

Many avid gardeners consider the sight a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, an event worthy of pilgrimage.

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