Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the Corpse Flower, is the biggest unbranched flower in the world. It also smells like rotting meat, which is where it got its nickname. It takes years to come into bloom. Would you like to see one bloom without having to experience the smell?
This Corpse Flower is named Perry T. Titan, and it lives at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. This time-lapse video was taken over 45 days as the plant grew from a corm to its full flower in the fall of 2013. The accompanying music is, appropriately enough, “Dance of the Flowers” from The Nutcracker Suite. -via Digg
Couldn't it have just burst forth in a smelly, gooey mess that somehow was able to spread its seeds a hundred meters or so? Now that would be a Hollywood ending. Add some explosions and cheap love story and it could even be a Michael Bay franchise.
BTW, that green cabinet thingamajig sprung a leak after the corpse flower (spoiler) toppled over.