The giant, 8-foot plant only blooms once a decade, and emits a powerful odor.

Learn about the corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) collection at the U.S. Botanic Garden.

The titan arum is a flowering plant known for its pungent order when flowering. Due to its fragrance, which is reminiscent of the smell of a decomposing mammal, the titan arum is also known as a carrion flower, the "Corpse flower", or "Corpse plant". It thrives at the edges of rainforests near open grasslands. Though found in many botanic gardens around the world it is still indigenous only to the tropical forests of Sumatra. This one is named "Maladora" is currently blooming at the UC…

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"Everybody knew: Don’t touch the titan."

I bet you will /r/BeAmazed.

The Titan Arum ( Amorphophallus titanum ) at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh bloomed Saturday after 12 years of careful cultivation and a few feverish weeks of tracking bud development . It's the first time a Titan Arum has bloomed in Scotland, and a huge victory for the dedicated staff at the

The Titan Arum is a truly remarkable plant. Both its inflorescence and its leaf structure are extremely unique and enormous. The stem of the leaf structure is just as green as the leaflets at the t…