Bangkok – A huge “corpse flower”, which has opened its petals for the first time in 15 years, is exhibited this Sunday in the National Botanical Garden of Australia, in Cambberra, where hundreds of curious have come.
As explained by the garden on your Facebook page, Flowering began on Saturday night and will last until Monday, time for which visits reserves have already been exhausted.
It is a ‘Amorphotallus titanum’, known as “Flor Corpver”, a species that takes seven to 10 years to flourish, although this time it was 15 years, until it reached a height of 135 centimeters, to open its corolla and release the foul smell characterizes it.
This giant ring, also known as ‘Bunga Bangkai’, smells like rotting and produces the largest and most stinking floral spike or inflorescence in the world, after which he withers.
This exhibition in the Australian capital takes place only two weeks after a flower of the same spice opened its corolla in the Botanical Garden of Sydney, where thousands of visitors attracted by the nauseabundo smell also attended.
The ‘Bunga Bangkai’ is originally from the tropical jungles of Sumatra, in Indonesia, and is in danger due to the deforestation of the forests where it grows.
It is identifiable by its enormous yellow spine, which can exceed two meters high, and its nausebound smell, which serves to attract pollinating insects such as flies looking for bodies to deposit their eggs.
Once the inflorescence begins to appear, it grows at a rate of 10 centimeters per day until it reaches an average of 2.50 meters high, approximately 1 meter in diameter and a weight of 75 kilos.
In countries such as Germany, Belgium or Brazil have also registered in recent years the flowering of the “corpse flower”, while in Australia one of these openings could be witnessed in 2015 in the city of Melbourne.