South Australia's first corpse flower was named Indah which means beautiful in Indonesian.
It is a rare tropical plant native to the equatorial rainforests of Sumatra, in Indonesia.
Corpse Flower on Show at the Adelaide Botanic Garden
It's free to experience the flower at Adelaide Botanic Garden when it reaches its full bloom – with the stinkiest period coming in the first 24 hours of flowering.
The eyes of the world were on the Adelaide Botanic Garden after an endangered Corpse Flower, aka Titan Arum, flowered for its first time. The plant, which was propagated from a leaf cutting in 2013, produced its magnificent inflorescence on Sunday, 8 January 2023 and began its stinky 48-hour bloom.
Filtered sunlight or partial shade is perfect. Corpse Flowers grow in the understory of the forests where dappled light falls on the leaves. Corpse Flower grows best in natural sunlight. If you are growing inside, provide as much natural light as possible and supplement with full spectrum fluorescent bulbs.
known as the rarest flower on earth, with it believed to be only two specimens of this species to exist.
The titan arum is a flowering plant, native to Indonesia's island of Sumatra. The plant's full bloom only once every seven to ten years.
The titan arum manufactures its aroma, often likened to the smell of rotting flesh, to attract insects carrying pollen. These insects are active at night which is why it stops producing its smell during the day.
The rare and endangered Corpse Flower, or Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), is known for its highly pungent, rotting flesh-like odour, and eye-catching flower display, which it uses to attract insects for pollination.
Although the corpse flower smells horrible, the plant itself is not poisonous. The fruit of the corpse flower, however, is poisonous to humans.
Amorphophallus titanum is often called corpse flower because when it blooms, it emits a powerful stench similar to that of rotting meat. This scent, along with the deep-red, meaty color of the open spathe, attracts insect pollinators that feed on dead animals.
Titan arum is one of the smelliest plants on Earth. Nicknamed the corpse flower, it has an incredibly foul smell of rotten flesh when in bloom. This nauseating odour is produced to attract pollinators that love to feed and breed on flesh.
The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) is listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with an estimation of fewer than 1,000 individuals remaining in the wild.
The most elusive of nature's floral stink bombs is Rafflesia, and like the odors of its peers, its stench is an irresistible lure to pollinating carrion flies but off-putting to most humans. By botanical definition, Rafflesia barely qualifies as a plant. It has no stems, roots, or leaves.
Plant that packs a punch
Dubbed the 'corpse flower', Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) stinks of rotting flesh when in bloom. Whilst some pollinators are attracted to floral aromas, the pollinators of Titan arum love to feed and breed on flesh and dung.
And when it does, it will be hard to ignore. The rare phallic-shaped plant from Sumatra has a distinctive odor detectable from half a mile away. “The smell resembles a chunk of rotting flesh,” said Joe Rothleutner, Golden Gate Park's garden director, adding that the corpse flower is an endangered species in the wild.
And soon Vancouver's corpse flower “Uncle Fester” will be drawing large crowds at the Queen Elizabeth Park's Bloedel Conservatory as it blooms for the second time ever. The plants, known scientifically as Amorphophallus titanum, grow to a massive size and bloom unpredictably — usually with years between flowers.
Often called the corpse flower, Rafflesia arnoldi blooms into the single largest individual flower in the world. When it does, it emits a vile aroma, similar to rotten meat.
Rafflesia arnoldii, the corpse flower or giant padma, is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus Rafflesia. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth.
The foul-smelling Corpse Flower has opened its limited but stinky bloom as thousands of visitors are expected to flock to Adelaide Botanic Garden. The endangered Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), known as the Corpse Flower, opened last night and began sharing its rotting flesh-like scent.
You'll smell it before you see it - the Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), commonly known as the corpse flower, captured the imagination of visitors to Adelaide Botanic Garden who were lucky enough to catch a glimpse, and whiff, of the stinky bloom which only flowers for 48 hours.
The Rothschild's Slipper Orchid is considered one of the rarest flowers in the world as it is very difficult to find, given that it not only grows at altitudes above 1,640 feet, it also takes 15 years to bloom. It's so rare that it's now worth thousands of dollars on the black market.