If you were wondering why people are flocking to Dartmouth Research University's greenhouse this weekend, it's to catch the bloom of the world's largest flower, which belongs to the Titan Arum flower, which also has the distinction of being the smelliest flower in the world, because the smell of its flower is reminiscent of the stench of corpses, moldy cheese or rotten meat. The flowering of the flower, which was discovered in 1878 by the Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari and whose flower lives for a maximum of three days, is extremely rare, which is why the flower is even more of an attraction.
V greenhouse American Research University Dartmouth (New Hampshire) a flower bloomed Titan Arum, which hasn't happened since 2011. We usually like to blow the flowers, but you won't want to because it will turn your stomach. Why? The stench of a flower Titan Arum, famous as the flower with the largest flower in the world, they describe it as a stench a three-day-old corpse or as a mixture of the smell of a dead animal and urine.
Finally, there is a flower that grows between one and a half and three meters in height and width it only blooms for two or three days (only then it also stinks), bloomed in Basel, Switzerland, where it hadn't bloomed before since 1936. completely odorless.
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Stinking flower Titan Arum is home in Sumatra, Indonesia and Borneo, and its natural habitat is there tropical rain forest. It was brought to Europe, where it is grown in botanical gardens, in the 19th century. He raised a record amount in 2010 Louis Ricciardiello. She measured 3.1 meters in height. During flowering, a huge stamen grows, which attracts carnivorous insects, and the stench also spreads half a kilometer away. With its unusual appearance and foul smell, it attracts insects to pollinate it. For the first time, Titan Arum bloomed outside of its natural environment in 1889 in the London Botanic Garden, and the second time only in 1926.
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