Corpse Flowers

#Environment

■Corpse flower

✅Over a thousand people queued to catch a glimpse of the extremely rare and aptly named 'corpse flower ' in an abandoned gas station in San Francisco's Bay Area.

✅Scientific name: Amorphophallus titanum, this ultra-rare plant is known to bloom only once every seven to ten years.

✅This flower is also considered to be one of the argest in the world.

✅While the plant is native to Indonesia, its saplings have been cultivated in zoos,botanical gardens, and greenhouses around the world over the years

✅The average lifespan of this flower is about three-four decades.

✅The flower is known for its pungent stench,which is said to be similar to rotting meat or a decaying cadaver.

✅It was listed as an endangered plant in 2018 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

SOURCE - INDIAN EXPRESS