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

A corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) bloom opened last night, surprising us by opening a bit earlier than we guessed it would. While the smell would have been strongest last night, a small amount of its stinky smell remains. The Garden is open regular hours today, and we suspect the bloom to continue standing tomorrow. We now have multiple mature corpse flowers in our collection as part of our conservation work, and we suspect others might bloom later this summer. Learn more about this fasci

What’s that smell? It’s our corpse plant! For the first time ever at the Toronto Zoo, a corpse plant (Amorphophallus titanum) is projected to start to bloom in the next two weeks. This species only blooms for 8-36 hours and this is the first time this species has bloomed in the GTA, and the fifth time one has bloomed within Canada! Grown from seed, it can take six to ten years for a plant to produce its first flower, after which it can take several more years for it to bloom again. Once we confi