#corpse flower

[wachinyeya]

Pair of Endangered Corpse Flowers Defy Odds to Bloom at Same Time–Now Bearing 700 Seeds https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pair-of-endangered-corpse-flowers-defy-odds-to-bloom-at-same-time-now-bearing-700-seeds/

Pair of Endangered Corpse Flowers Defy Odds to Bloom at Same Time–Now Bearing 700 Seeds

The result of this incredible stroke of fortune is that one of the corpse flowers has now fruited bearing 736 seeds critical for conservatio

[sincerelya-stories]

I AINT SEE NO ONE TALKIN ABOUT HIS GODDAMN DESIGN

Mayhaps I missed it from early discussions, but they made this man a goddamn corpse flower...

His designers deserve so many kisses on the forehead for this especially since he would have been a botanist if he wasn't a necromancer

[herpsandbirds]

White-spot Giant Arum aka Elephant Foot Yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), family Araceae, Sumatra, Indonesia

One of the "corpse flowers", the flower (actually an inflorescence) has a stinky corpse-like smell that attracts flies (which are its pollinators).

In the same genus as the gigantic Titan Arum.

The plant produces a large edible tuber.

photograph by Pungky Nanda Pratama

[mushroombuttonsart]

🌹The Spring Bearer and her Ghostly Knight🗡️

I saw a tiktok of them together and thought they were ADORABLE, so I wanted to make my rendition of them together!

[dmitrimolotov]

The Sydney Royal Botanic Garden's Corpse Flower "Putricia" is about to bloom and you can watch a livestream of it.

[ourspecial]

URI's corpse flower watch!

A rare Titan arum (better known as the corpse flower) is preparing to bloom at the University of Rhode Island's Horridge Conservatory. This

Corpse flower gonna pop into bloom for the first time in 13 years!!! Keep an eye on the livestream, we're 7-12 days out now!

[olessan]

I've been dropping in on the Sydney Botanic Gardens' titan arum (corpse flower) live stream and it gets less hinged by the hour, especially now that Putricia (the flower is named Putricia) has begun to bloom

At time of posting (5:30pm), she smells like wet socks and dead mice:

Other highlights:

People in the greenhouse are taking selfies with the plant but also the livestream camera

There is a discord server, apparently mostly comprised of the people who've been in the chat for 3 days straight

Aformentioned people formed a community of like 50-200 chatters until Putricia started blooming and the viewers and chat exploded to like 9k people ⠀

There are what appear to be Prayers to Putricia™, consisting of: WWTF (we watch the flower), BBTF (blessed be the bloom), WDNRP (we do not rush Putricia), WDNEP (we do not eat Putricia), and now WSTF (we smell the flower)

Faithfuls frequently post these to spread the word of Putricia

They have dubbed themselves the Children of the Corm:

Yesterday someone asked if Putricia's petals had started to open/bloom yet, and without fail 50% of chat immediately made innuendo jokes about their """""petals""""" opening, but that it depended on their personal humidity, who was touching the petals, and if the time was right for petal opening ⠀

Every 3rd time someone stands dead centre in front of the camera's FOV sufficient to block the view, chat starts 1: speculating on how tall they are (one guy was erroneously thought to be 7ft tall), and 2: immediately switch priorities to telling them to duck ⠀

a lot of people are waving at the camera and goofing off in the 3 minutes they have in the greenhouse with Putricia

A guy and his kid signed in AUSLAN at the camera ⠀

loads of fart jokes now that Putricia is starting to dutch oven everyone

[eunnuiphyte]

Today Putricia finally bloomed! So lucky so happy I got to see her 💖

Blessed Be The Bloom

Plant ID: Amorphophallus titanum (Titan Arum, Corpse Flower, Bunga Bangkai)