Tens of thousands of people visit the dirty flower and others watch it in livestreaming as it is expected to bloom
A beautiful plant threatened with extinction, also known as a “flower corpse” due to its smell, is exposed to Australia, with thousands of people visiting it.
The Titan Arum plant, hosted in Sydney’s Royal Botanical Gardens, blooms only once every few years, for just 24 hours.
This rare plant as beautiful as it is, so awful it smells. Specifically, according to the BBC, its smell is described as a combination of “dirty socks, hot cat and rotten beard.”
The flower – corpse is also watching live streaming viewers from all over the world so as not to lose the moment it blooms.
John Simon, gardening manager compared the spectacle with them Sydney Olympics in 2000, saying that “15,000 people crossed the gates before the flower even opened.”
“This flower is about 10 years old. We got it from our colleagues in the Los Angeles Botanical Garden at the age of three and have been taking care of it for the last seven years, “he told the BBC. “We are incredibly excited to see the first bloom of the species, after 15 years,” He stressed.
The dirty and gorgeous flower began cowardly to open with people waiting to see its beauty with longing. When it blooms completely it will unfold like a brown or crimson “skirt”.
However, no one knows when to unfold its beauty, hence the world live streaming.
This species can only be found in the tropical forests of Sumatra, in Indonesia, where it is known as Bunga Bangkai – or “flower – corpse” in Indonesian.
Its scientific name is Amorphophallus Titanumwhich comes from the ancient Greek And it means “giant deformed penis”, according to the BBC.
When it is flourished, the long yellow core of the plant emits an intense odor, often compared to the smell of rotten flesh, to fool insects and think they are rotten meat.
It can reach 3 meters high and weigh up to 150 kg!
This gorgeous flower is in danger of extinction due to deforestation and cannot be cultivated.
Source: Skai
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