Nature’s biggest, rarest, smelliest flower called Titan Arum also called as ‘Corpse flower’ which emits the scent that smells like rotting flesh occurs only at just one place on Earth the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
There are two seven-foot-tall corpse flowers at the Chicago Botanic Garden, which have bloomed recently, which was extraordinary attracting thousands of visitors this week. The flower gives out the smell of rotting flesh to attract pollinating beetles and flies.
Since they occur in one place in earth naturally, they are also threatened by deforestation, and botanic gardens around the world are cultivating and preserving them.
It takes up to 10 years for one plant to flower, and then it does so for about one day.
“Having twin corpse flowers both bloom at the same time is very rare,” said Greg Mueller, chief scientist at the botanic garden.
The Chicago Botanic Garden checked with its counterparts around the world and found only a handful of times that such an event has happened, and it has never before occurred in North America.
“This is one of these plants that are just so exciting,” Mueller said.
The garden will continue to display the plants until June 8, and expects to draw many more thousands of enthusiasts come to observe the huge structures, even though the flowers have already closed back up, and are beginning to wilt.
But even more exciting for scientists, they have managed to pluck away precious seeds to send to other gardens.
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