OK, I realise that WAB rarely concerns itself with things horticultural. Sort of hard for gardening chit chat to compete with battleship specs & civil wars. However, I think this is sufficiently remarkable to warrant a thread.
I Stood in line for 2 hours at Melbourne's Royal Botanical gardens to see this. it is ther Titan Arum, the largest flower in the world. it is native to Borneo and only flowers once every 7-8 years. The flower only lasts 48 hours or so. It can grow to 3 meters and weigh 50 kilos - bigger tha nsome adults. Apparently they often smell like rotting flesh - a ploy to attract polinators - earning it the name 'corpse flower'. People fly all over the world & wait years to see these bloom - one of the ladies in the left of the bottom photo apparently waited 12 years to finally see one. Tens of thousands of people passed through that glass house over the last few days. Glad I was one of them. A true privilege.
I Stood in line for 2 hours at Melbourne's Royal Botanical gardens to see this. it is ther Titan Arum, the largest flower in the world. it is native to Borneo and only flowers once every 7-8 years. The flower only lasts 48 hours or so. It can grow to 3 meters and weigh 50 kilos - bigger tha nsome adults. Apparently they often smell like rotting flesh - a ploy to attract polinators - earning it the name 'corpse flower'. People fly all over the world & wait years to see these bloom - one of the ladies in the left of the bottom photo apparently waited 12 years to finally see one. Tens of thousands of people passed through that glass house over the last few days. Glad I was one of them. A true privilege.
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