Corpse Flower Titan Arum Outdoor Bonsai Beautiful Biggest Flower In World : A Time-lapse of the Corpse Flower Blooming at the Huntington Library

 

“Leave the familiar for a while”

Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season

Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.

Make a new water-mark on your excitement

And love.

Like a blooming night flower,

Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness

And giving

Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence

Lie beside an equator

In your heart.

Greet Yourself

In your thousand other forms

As you mount the hidden tide and travel

Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven

Are sitting around a fire

Chatting

While stitching themselves together

Into the Great Circle inside of

You.

—Hafiz

Corpse Flower Titan Arum Outdoor Bonsai Beautiful Biggest Flower In World

A rare corpse flower that smells like rotting flesh blooms for a second time in less than 12 months at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

*The corpse flower is endemic to western Sumatra, an island in southeast Asia in western Indonesia, where it grows in rainforests on limestone hills. Sumatra has a wide range of plant and animal species but has lost almost half of its tropical rainforest in the last 35 years.

It was first scientifically described in 1878 by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari. The plant flowers only infrequently in the wild and even more rarely when cultivated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum