Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, or ‘the giant corpse flower’ is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The name is derived from its odor and color, which is like the smell of a rotting corpse or carcass (Indonesian: bunga bangkai – bunga means ‘flower’, while bangkai can be translated as ‘corpse’, ‘cadaver’, or ‘carrion’).

This flower appears most often on the steep hillsides of tropical rain forests on the western of Sumatra island, Indonesia. Its height can range from nearly 2 meters to nearly 4 meters and weigh up to nearly 77 kilograms.

The flower consists of stark yellow center that is taller than the wings. The scent of flowers varies from the smell of rotten meat, fertilizer, rancid cheese to the unpleasant stench to attract flies that eat corpses to pollinate them.

After the flower dies back, a single leaf, which reaches the size of a small tree, grows from the underground corm. The leaf grows on a somewhat green stalk that branches into three sections at the top, each containing many leaflets. Each year, the old leaf dies and a new one grows in its place.

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