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Amorphophallus Titanum (called Titan Arum in short). Titan Arum is not your regular flower. It blooms once in a decade and is one of the largest in the world — growing over 10 ft in height.

It looks peculiar, with a tall, crooked, pale yellowish phallic structure which is the spiral, petal-like structure that holds within it the inflorescence.

The flower smells like dead bodies.

It mimics the stench of rotting flesh to attract its pollinators — carnivorous bees and flies that feed on corpses. The pollinators enter the giant interiors of the flower in search of food and, while flying away in disappointment, carry away pollen.

Despite its complex attempt at survival, the species has fewer than 1,000 individuals left in the wild, according to the United States Botanic Garden, and is listed as ‘endangered’ in the International Union for Conservations of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Plants.

 

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