The Titan arumsays: die.Flowers 1.5 meters in diameter and is nearly 3 meters high.The Titan arum flowers native to Indonesia's Sumatra island, exudes a similar decayThe bodyBad smell, it is also called the "corpse flower".For this very difficult to cultivate flowers, flower age 150 years or so, in the highest expected can grow to 3 meters, is the largest flower in the world.Also known as the "corpse smelly konjac" by botanists Odoardo Beccari was found in 1878.

The Titan arum profile

The Titan arum can live for 150 years or so commonly, only two or three times in its life period.Arum at flowering time is very short, at most a few days, and then grow fruit after, will soon wither, so it is difficult to see.It will emit a disgusting like the flavor of the carcasses of corruption, therefore, and called the corpse flower (corpse flower).

Titan arum Indonesian name called "bunga bangkai", "bunga" means "flower", "bangkai" meaning "body", huge flower konjac in bloom will send out a similar smell the smell of, so called "the world's most smelly flowers".

The "crown" is spadix involucre, araceae plants "spathe", "flower" is actually a spadix, it have roots like potatoes.Wait for corolla unfolds, with reddish purple flower will remain open for a few days time, send out a body odor will be increased dramatically.

The legend of the Titan arum

The Titan arum is the ancient legend of magic, the size of the flower like a big bucket, mouth XiaoDu thick, petals together, perfect green, each have a large blood red leaves.Have a faint scent, colorful like drops of water.A glance at, remember its enchanting color, within a certain distance, will be hallucinating because of confused by it, so as to commit suicide or kill each other.

This growth in the western regions after the moon people, can grow in the tomb, keep the body does not decay, and make the body smell.Very cherish, there is only one individual plant, exist in clue queen's tomb.Due to the kunlun shenmu do coffin can provide nourishment, so even if deep underground, water without sunshine, still can continue to live.Together with the clue of the queen's coffin in the landslide after the fall in the abyss.

The Titan arum says says

Arum at distant ancestors "resin incense konjac", has long been extinct for one thousand years, the legendary resin incense konjac is a kind of growth in made of kunlun shenmuThe coffinThe corpses of the strange flowers and plants, it can be disorderly person mind, make the person produces the illusion.The flowers of the devil, enchanting color with it, strange fragrance, make one after another by the illusions of trap, seduce people dying, legend "resin incense konjac flowers" is the guardian king Solomon the treasure of the evil spirits.So, it means death.

When the flower of the Titan arum litter, the plant into the dormant, and it sends out a like dirty socks or the smell of rotting bodies, is to want to attract flies and live to eat carrion beetles to pollination, it is very gorgeous, than you can imagine anything beautiful, yet the fantastic beauty of the flower is indeed a growth on this planet, now is still there.