The last time there was excitement over a corpse flower was two years ago when the Denver Botanic Gardens plant "Lil' Stinker" bloomed at the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory. Amorphophallus titanum is native to rainforests on an island in Indonesia and the flower's...
The bloom only lasts for three days. After that time, the sheer weight of the flower will cause it to collapse and wither away. After the flower dies back, one single leaf will grow from the underground root. That leaf will grow on a stalk that branches into three sections at the top ...
Rivedal, Karen