Berlin’s Corpse Flower: Bloom & Stench!
- The Botanical Garden of Berlin Live special days having flourished his exemplary of giant ring or Amorphophallus titanum, A very particular plant of more than two meters.
- The giant ring is the "proof that not all beautiful plants smell good," they say in the German capital's arboret, which has seen how Monday The shocking smell...
- "Today is a great day for us because from noon yesterday we have seen that the plant began to open, His upper blade has opened and disseminated his...
The Botanical Garden of Berlin Live special days having flourished his exemplary of giant ring or Amorphophallus titanum, A very particular plant of more than two meters. Its badge lies in the fact that this species only generates flowers in periods interrupted for several years and, above all, emits a strong and bad smell.
The giant ring is the “proof that not all beautiful plants smell good,” they say in the German capital’s arboret, which has seen how Monday The shocking smell of the Amorphophallus titanum It extended by the great greenhouse of which is the largest botanical garden in Germany and one of the largest in the world.
“Today is a great day for us because from noon yesterday we have seen that the plant began to open, His upper blade has opened and disseminated his smell of carrion“Thorsten Lauto said, a gardener in chief of Berlin Botanical Garden. This flowering process did not occur in the German capital’s arboret since 2018, when another giant ring flourished in what has been described as” one of the most spectacular events in the plant kingdom. “
The plant blooms through a plant structure that groups flowers called in Botany Inflorescence. “We are very happy because many years have passed until the plant has shown its flower“Lute pointed out next to the flourishing giant ring and in front of a tail of the botanical garden that extended by a good hundred meters inside the greenhouse.
Many of the visitors have commented on the smell of the plant, some children told their parents that “strung”, although the worst had already happened, then Only in the early hours of the opening it emits this flower its strongest smell, Something for what, not in vain, is also known as “corpse plant.”
“The strong smell comes, above all, on the first night, with a smell of carrion to attract insects interested in leaving their eggs in a body“Lauta explained, adding that this is the strategy of this vegetable with which it seeks to pollinate and be pollinated.
With about 2.36 meters, the flowering stage also known as “Greater flower in the world” It is expected to continue until the middle of the week, because the flowering of this plant only lasts just three days, they indicated in the Berlin Botanical Garden, which celebrated that height as a record.
A plant native to Sumatra and Java
“It is the largest giant ring we have had in Berlin, the largest previous one was that of 2011 in which it measured 1.99 meters, Now 2.36 meters is very special. In nature it can reach up to three meters, and its tuber has weigh the 100 kilos, “Lute said.
This exotic newly flourished Berlin plant, the last time it went through the scale weighed about 32 kilos, according to Lauta’s details, a gardener still surprised by an unpredictable flowering process that It can last for years in its preparation and that, once triggered, ends at most, three days. From that tuber, the resources extract the plant to grow as it has done in Berlin, and is estimated in botany that the growth rate can be up to fifteen centimeters a day.
The flourishing Berlin giant ring arrived in the German capital three years ago from Frankfurt and it is the first time that it blooms in the Metropolis of the East German. As a species, The giant hoops are natives of the western parts of the islands of Sumatra and Javaand were discovered in 1878 by the Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari.
In the Berlin Botanical Garden, and in that of many other capitals in the world, Giant rings are one of the main attractions, especially when they flourish.