Head to SF and smell the Corpse Flower!
This may not be for everyone, but here’s your chance to smell a flower that produces a foul odor of rotting animal flesh.
The Titan Arum, native to Sumatra, Indonesia, is opening and on display this weekend at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.
The so-called Corpse Flower isn’t a flower. Experts say it’s an “unbranched inflorescence,” a structure made up of many individual flowers. It also produces the largest leaf in the world, up to 20 feet high.
The Titan Arum bloom stinks to trick pollinators, like flies and beetles, into thinking the plant is rotting organic matter.
A San Francisco collector gave the now nine year old plant to the conservatory in 2014 with an email noting he was donating it because it had outgrown the space in his bathroom.
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