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The rare bloom at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens smells like rotting meat — and it only lasts a few days. CLEVELAND — The smell ...
A plant at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens called Titan Arum —which gives off a rotting meat smell — is blooming in a brief, ...
Titan arum's pebble-sized red, oval fruits appear nine months after fertilisation, and each contain two seeds. In the wild they are eaten and spread by birds such as rhinoceros hornbills.
If you’ve ever wanted to smell a flower that’s scent has been compared to rotting flesh, this could be your chance. That’s ...
Titan Arum, or Amorphophallus titanum, is also known as the corpse flower. Native to the equatorial rainforests of western Indonesia, it is known for its enormous proportions and its off-putting ...
Only a few hundred Titan arum exist, mostly in botanical gardens. UC Berkeley's garden has a dozen of the plants, all from the same seeds collected in 1995 in Sumatra. The last one bloomed in 2009.
The corpse flower, also known as the titan arum, is seen before it bloomed at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2013. The flower, which is from the rainforest of Indonesia ...
One of the world's largest and most foul-smelling flowers has bloomed for the first time in two years, at a botanical garden ...
A titan arum, the rock star of the plant world, bloomed over Easter weekend at the Biological Sciences greenhouse at Ohio State University. According to the university, fewer than 100 titans have ...
The titan arum's inflorescence can reach over 10 feet in height and weigh as much as 170 pounds. An inflorescence is a cluster of smaller individual flowers, like a daisy or sunflower.
The titan arum currently in bloom for the third time, named Sumatra, last flowered in 2017. A second flower, Spike, is set to bloom for the fourth time in the coming week.
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