Belgium: A 2.12 meter tall titan arum has blossomed - 20 Minutes
An exceptional and fleeting flowering. A titan arum bloomed at 11 a.m. on Wednesday in the greenhouses of the Meise Botanical Garden, north of Brussels, in Belgium. The plant, which last bloomed there in July 2018, is 2.12 meters tall.
The greenhouses being closed due to Coronavirus, the public was still able to attend this flowering on the site of the Botanical Garden. A chance, because the flowering of Amorphophallus titanum (its small Latin name) is ephemeral - it lasts only 72 hours - and rare - it occurs in nature only once every 3 years. In Meise, this is only the tenth time that the plant has flowered since 2008, the year when the Botanical Garden acquired it. When it first flowered in August 2008, it had attracted 8,000 visitors.
Last feature of the “titan phallus”, which was discovered in 1878 in the tropical rain forests of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia: its flowering is accompanied by a foul smell, which aims to attract insects. A chance, finally, that the flowering took place in streaming!
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