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  2. Titan arum - Wikipedia

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    Because its flower blooms infrequently and only for a short period, it gives off a powerful scent of rotting flesh to attract pollinators. As a consequence, it is characterized as a carrion flower, earning it the names corpse flower or corpse plant. The titan arum was first brought to flower in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in ...

  3. It's big, rare and dead smelly: Visitors flock to see the ...

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    The fact that Putricia is the first corpse flower to bloom at the garden in 15 years has fueled her rapid rise to fame. Up to 20,000 admirers have filed past for a moment in her increasingly ...

  4. List of publicised titan arum blooms in cultivation - Wikipedia

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    A corpse flower "Lupin" named after Harry Potter's Remus Lupin (lupin being wolf in Latin) to honor NC State (whose athletic teams are known as the Wolfpack) bloomed on August 1, 2019. August 15, 2019 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA "Little Eva", one of three corpse flowers came from the Huntington Botanical Gardens, opened. The others ...

  5. Amorphophallus - Wikipedia

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    The species Amorphophallus titanum, 'corpse flower' or titan arum, has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence, with a height of up to 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) and a width of 1.5 metres (4.9 ft). [ citation needed ] After an over 1.2 metres (3.9 ft)-tall flower opened at Chicago Botanic Gardens on September 29, 2015, thousands lined up to see ...

  6. Stinky bloom of 'corpse flower' enthrals thousands - AOL

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    But there have been other corpse flower blooms across Australia in recent years, including Melbourne and Adelaide's botanic gardens, each time attracting thousands of curious visitors keen on ...

  7. 6 intriguing things to know about the stinkiest corpse flower ...

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    Get ready to catch a whiff of it at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino.

  8. Rafflesia arnoldii - Wikipedia

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    Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower, [2] or giant padma, [3] Its local name is Petimum Sikinlili. It is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia within the family Rafflesiaceae .

  9. Visitors line up to see and smell a corpse flower's stinking ...

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    It was the first bloom for the corpse flower named Mirage, which was donated to the California Academy of Sciences in 2017. It’s been housed in the museum’s rainforest exhibit since 2020.