• Question: What's the smelliest plant in the world?

    Asked by The Jasonator to MariaMagdalena on 13 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Maria Magdalena Razalan

      Maria Magdalena Razalan answered on 13 Nov 2015:


      Hello Jasonator,
      apparently they have a veeeeeeeeeery smelly one in some botanical gardens in Cornwall, Edinburgh and London.
      It is called Amorphophallus titanum, a gigantic plant (the one at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh was more than 2 metres tall!) also known as “corpse flower”, as when the flower blooms apparently it stinks of rotten flesh!

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