Amorphophallus Titanium: One of the world’s largest flowers blooms in Tokyo

The extremely rare flower, has an anther that towers up to 6.5 feet and reportedly smells like rotten meat. The rotten meat smell is why it is called the corpse flower as well.

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Amorphophallus Titanium at Jindai botanical park in Chofu, Tokyo. (Source: Kyodo News Service)

Amorphophallus Titanium, more commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed for the first time in five years at the Jindai botanical gardens in Tokyo’s Chofu city.

The extremely rare flower, has an anther that towers up to 6.5 feet and reportedly smells like rotten meat. The rotten meat smell is why it is called the corpse flower as well.

The rarity of the flower has the park storming with visitors forcing it to extend its visiting hours, reports BBC World, quoting Japan’s Kyodo News Service.

The flower originally belongs to the rainforests of western Sumatra in Indonesia where it blooms steep hillsides. But owing to deforestation, Amorphophallus Titanium now is classified as ‘vulnerable’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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