Photo from open source giant plant titan arum blooms for only three days every five to ten years. He is called cadaveric a flower, and such a name is justified. During flowering plant spreads a terrifying stench that smells like decaying corpse and rotten fish at the same time.
Titan Arum, one of the largest flowers on Earth, recently bloomed in the main greenhouse of Ghent University in Belgium. Plant height is about two meters, and the mass exceeds eighteen kilograms. Moreover, in three-meter specimens weighing more are found in the wild centner.
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Due to the fact that between periods of short flowering sometimes a whole decade goes by, admire the flower come here from all over the country and even the world. True, it is advisable to carry have a handkerchief or even a fragrant nostril ointment. Not every onlooker manages to endure the stench emitted by this plant, which was wittily ridiculed in the famous animated series “The Simpsons”. TO the word, despite this, it is believed that the disgusting smell of Titan Arum is able to charge a person with sexual energy and life forces, and for this reason the flower has always been revered and protected by people.
For the first time an unusual plant was discovered in one of the Indonesian islands in 1878. The natives called him the cadaveric flower. Titan Arum poorly takes root in captivity, so artificially managed to grow it only in a few points on the planet.
The intense stench of the plant attracts meat flies and dead-eating bugs that pollinate a flower.
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