Looks like the largest flower in the world?

As much as girls love gorgeous colors, but the biggest flower in the world looks very well presentable.
Recently, the largest flower in the world Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) bloomed at the Botanical garden in Basel (Switzerland).





This plant with a yellow spadix and dark red petals in the form of the crater reached a height of 2.26 meters. And its tuber has a weight of over 13 pounds.
The plant for 17 years, but it bloomed the first time. Even despite the fact that the plant has a smell of rotten meat, visitors to the Botanical garden to "enjoy" the flower giant.




Meanwhile, the natural distribution area of the Amorphophallus titanum are jungles in Indonesia, but it is diluted and Botanical gardens around the world.
Titan Arum blooms once in 25-45 years, and the flower lives for only two days. Under greenhouse conditions, flowering of the Titan of the Amur river in the world only happened 135 times.





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