[quote]At the [url=http://www.bg.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/koishikawa/eigo/e.html]Koishikawa Botanical Gardens[/url] — managed by the University of Tokyo — the titan arum bloomed for the first time in 1991. The plant that flowered just recently was grown from a seed given by an American researcher in 1993.
On the afternoon of July 22, the leaves surrounding the 1.5-meter-tall stem began to open. The plant reached “full bloom” at around 7 p.m. the same day, with a diameter of about 80 centimeters.
The distinctive feature of the titan arum is its strong smell reminiscent of rotten meat, which the plant gives off to attract insects for pollination.[/quote]
[url=http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/07/24/big-stinky-flower-blooms-in-tokyo/][i]via JapanProbe[/i][/url]
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