What is the flower that is said to bloom only once in a thousand years?

Question

Or so.

Answer 1

I don't think there are any flowers that live 1,000 years. There are certain types of trees that live several thousands of years such as certain kinds of pine trees and redwoods. The creosote plant is said to live several thousand years and it is a flowering plant but not really a flower per se. I know the corpse flower lives around 100 years or more and one of them hadn't bloomed in some 60 or 70 years, in New York, and it was in all the papers.

Answer 2

Well a thousand years is an over exageration. Even the century plant does not take a hundred years to prepare for blooming. Some fruit trees take several years for the fruit to be able to set, but often will bloom after a couple of years.

The famous stink flower that bloomed in SF does take a while to get ready to bloom and some night blooming cactus will bloom at night and die the same night.

Some orchids are real finicky and take the right conditions to bloom. Other plants that bloom like bamboo are so rare in blooming that people associate bad omens to their blooming. The last time that they bloomed in china there was a famine, fortunately the seeds were edible and many chinese had to eat bamboo seeds.

Answer 3

Are you thinking of the legendary Udumbara Flower from Buddhist teachings?

"Udumbara flower blooms once every three thousand years, "

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geuoVTsMhFbl4BOmlXNyoA?p=udumbara+flower&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&x=wrt

Or possibly the very real (but not so rare!) Century Plant:

"Members of the Amaryllis Family, century plants take many years to flower, although not a century. The Century Plant provided Native Americans with a source of soap, food, fiber, medicine and weapons."

http://www.desertusa.com/feb97/du_pcentury.html

Answer 4

The fortune plant. It's belived that you'll win the lotto if it blooms.

Answer 5

perhaps rafflesia which produces foul fragrance

Answer 6

rafflesia i think