A corpse flower bloomed at the Denver Botanic Gardens in the US earlier this week and hundreds of people are flocking to see it before it completes its life cycle and perishes. The flower, formally called titan arum or amorphophallus titanium, gets its name from the pungent smell it produces.
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The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/1LlaJ1N ) that garden officials said the plant, which can take up to 20 years to bloom, was finally blooming as of Tuesday.
Spike will begin releasing his stink about 12 hours before the deep red flower blooms.
Thousands of people have been standing in line to see and smell the flower, Live Science said. The scent is delicate close by, however stronger in again of the greenhouse the place followers are pulling air into the outside. During the morning, workers at the botanic garden removed some of the plant’s pollen so other facilities could use it to pollinate their corpse flowers.
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Erin Bird, a spokeswoman for the gardens, said the 15-year-old corpse flower, native to Indonesia, is nearly completely “closed back up” and will start drying up and decomposing in a few days.
