Rare 'corpse flower' attracts thousands

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I have smelled one of these before and Oh. My. God!!!! It was one of the worst smells I've ever encountered. It was terrible, terrible, terrible! They look so beautiful though......

Id like to send a few of those to my Ex LMFAO

Hey honey I got you some flowe....... divorce lol That's classic. Id like to send a few of those to my Ex LMFAO lmfao! Seriously, I'm going through a divorce right now and this would be PERFECT to send to her!!!! Thanks for the lol was needing one today

Id like to send a few of those to my Ex LMFAO Ha, ha. I was getting ready to write that !!! I want a dozen sent to my EX as well, LOL.

I saw one once, it wasn't quite blooming yet and didn't have the extreme smell they are talking about but it was an awesome sight to see a flower that huge!! It was set to bloom the next day, I'm glad we went early.

So it's basically a doomed plant? Sounds too inconvenient to successfully bloom, yet wilt in a matter of days.

I have one of these I got from an aroid collector and it flowered a couple of years ago. Yep, it stinks, but only for a few days. They leaf is really cool, 8 to15' tall deeply divided with a mottled green stalk (and it doesn't smell!). They are not uncommon in cultivation (most botanic gardens of any size have at least one), and they are now in tissue culture, but it takes time and a lot of room to grow and flower one. The tuber can get up to at least 100 lbs. and probably a lot more. BTW the plant in the video is Amorphophallus titanum, while the plant shown on the Unexplained Mysteries site ... [More]

So it's basically a doomed plant? Sounds too inconvenient to successfully bloom, yet wilt in a matter of days. No, the flower will rot and die just like, say, a rose or a lily. But the plant will then grow an enormous leaf, then when that dies, either another leaf or perhaps another flower will follow. The single giant leaf looks like a small tropical tree and can last for a couple of years before it dies to ground, and each leaf gets larger!

I like it's name: the rotting corpse plant.