What is the name of the flower that blooms every hundred years and smells like death when it does. Tropical?

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This plant is supposedly tropical. It has a very large bloom and supposedly reaks more than death when it's open.

2007-05-20 07:15:22 · 3 answers · asked by Lathaniel S 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape

amorphophallus titanum is the name (also known as corpse flower) and there is a picture in the link.

2007-05-20 07:32:59 · answer #1 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋

It is titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), a flowering plant from the jungles of Sumatra.

Link below is from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

2007-05-20 14:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by MGM 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋

They have one at the University of Connecticut (Go Huskies) greenhouse and it bloomed early this spring. Guess we have to return around 2106 to 2108.

2007-05-21 14:00:11 · answer #3 · answered by Alf W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋