The plant - named
Amorphophallus titanum, or titan arum - came into flower at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RBGE) late on Tuesday afternoon and it is still continuing to open.
The titan arums have the proper name of
Amorphophallus titanum but are also known as corpse flowers because the horrendous odour they give off to attract pollinators is similar to that of decaying flesh.
Amorphophallus titanum, known as the corpse flower because it smells like rotting flesh, bloomed last weekend at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.
The Putrella flower, scientific name:
Amorphophallus titanum, weighs 275 pounds and measures in at 8 ft.
Another enormous flower found there is the
Amorphophallus titanum, or Titan arum.
The show sees him getting up close and personal with several old chums, including the great Titan arum - the nickname he coined for
amorphophallus titanum, originally filmed in its native Sumatra for his BBC series The Private Life of Plants.
They had T-shirts printed featuring the
amorphophallus titanum plant and the slogan "New Reekie stinking at RBGE 2011".
Visitors to Sydney's Botanical Gardens have described the scent of the Titan Arum, also known as
Amorphophallus titanum, as like a room full of smelly socks, rotting fish, wet carpet, or a rotten banana.
Explaining the plant's allure, UW botanist Paul Berry says that in many ways
Amorphophallus titanum is more like an animal than a plant.
Amorphophallus titanum is a sort of gigantic arum lily with a blotchy stem, up to 8 in (20 cm) across, that produces many leaves whose photosynthetic activity leads to the formation of a large tuber weighing 44- .
172), we in Sarasota were treated to two
Amorphophallus titanum blooms in May of this year.
Amorphophallus titanum - malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet