They bloom once in a decade, and for just hours!🌸 The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum): Indonesia’s botanical monster. Its towering inflorescence can reach over 3 meters in height; its bloom emits a foul odor of rotting flesh to trick carrion flies and beetles into pollinating it. Despite the stink, it’s a masterclass in evolutionary showmanship: patience, deception, and spectacle all rolled into one.​ Would you witness this bloom?👀​ #TitanArum #Indonesia #Botany #DiscoveryChannelSouthEastA

At around 1.2m high this Dracula lily (Dracunculus vulgaris also known as Dragon arum or stink lily) is very striking ........ and so is it’s stench which nearly knocks you over as you walk past to get to our front door at #SophiesPatch. Fortunately it will have finished flowering by our #opengarden next weekend. #mypatch #ilovebulbs #buriedtreasure #Draculalily #dragonarum #stinklily #weirdandwonderful #Natureisawesome | Sophie Thomson