What you need to know about this flower? Yes, it is the largest, rarest and perhaps most stinky flower that you can see on our planet. The first European to see the monster was an Italian botanist and explorer Dr. Odoardo Beccari.
He saw it in Indonesia in 1878. These massive plants are under threat of extinction, as their natural habitat threatens humanity. No one knows how many of these plants remained in nature, but at least they have in the botanical gardens.
The flower opens at night and closes for the day. The amazing feature of this plant is that it is, if he wants, can independently generate heat. But do not be long in the open flower, from its flavor you probably feel dizzy or just be wrong. No wonder it is called the "corpse flower". Everything is designed for flies, and you stink like this. They fertilize the plant. And in the photo above, then what happens after fertilization.
His life is a plant begins to form tubers weighing under 100 pounds. Before flowering takes place not less than ten years. If it's time to bloom, the plant begins to change. And the flower was originally more like a big ear of corn, but without the seeds. When growth "cob" stops, it means that from day to day should be formed bud.
After only three days, the flower begins to die, but this is not the end of the story. One sheet is starting to emerge in the trunk on which to grow fruit (in the second photo)
And this is how this plant looks after the fruit has already crumbled. And few would guess that this was once the rarest, largest and most stinky flower.
Little more of its beauty during the flowering
