The corpse flower is a flowering plant native to the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, famous for producing the largest unbranched inflorescence of any plant in the world. Its bloom, which can reach several meters in height, emits a smell resembling rotting flesh to attract carrion-feeding beetles and flies that pollinate it. The plant flowers only rarely, sometimes going a decade or more between blooms, and each flowering event lasts only a day or two before the structure collapses.
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Classification
DietPhotosynthetic Autotroph 1 Living or ExtinctDerived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill). Identification
Distinguishing AppearanceIt has a large unbranched inflorescence, a tall single leaf branched like a tree, and a heavy tuber which enables the plant to produce the inflorescence. 1 Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
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Source Corpse Flower (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Corpse Flower (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia article, opening sentence
Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae
Wikipedia infobox, Conservation status field, IUCN Red List category
Endangered
Wikipedia article, opening paragraph, morphology sentence
It has a large unbranched inflorescence, a tall single leaf branched like a tree, and a heavy tuber which enables the plant to produce the inflorescence
lead sentence (diet), EntityId 344581
Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae.
In Biome: Tropical Rainforest, Lead section
titanum is endemic to rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
View the Source 2. GBIF Species API
Wikidata: Titan Arum
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