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The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the corpse flower, bloomed at the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory in July 2013. It was the first bloom of this particular plant, though it is nearly 10 years old. It takes quite a while to create enough energy for a bloom as spectacular as this one! 
  
 The public display began on Thursday, July 11; the titan began to open the evening of Sunday, July 21; started to close the evening of Monday, July 22; and collapsed the evening of Wednesday, July 24. The ephemeral nature of the bloom, coupled with its unpredictable flowering schedule, attracted more than 130,000 people to see the plant in person, and more than 650,000 views to the live webstream. 
  
 The magic of the titan arum comes from its great size - it is reputed to have the largest known unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom. When it went on display, the plant was around four feet tall. By the time the titan arum bloomed, it had grown to eight feet! Referred to as the corpse flower or stinky plant, its putrid smell is most potent during peak bloom at night into the early morning. The odor is often compared to the stench of rotting flesh. The inflorescence also generates heat, which allows the stench to travel further. This combination of heat and smell efficiently attracts pollinators, such as dung and carrion beetles, from across long distances. 
  
 The titan arum does not have an annual blooming cycle. The titan arum emerges from, and stores energy in, a huge underground stem called a "corm." The plant blooms only when sufficient energy is accumulated, making time between flowering unpredictable, spanning from a few years to more than a decade. It requires very special conditions, including warm day and night temperatures and high humidity, making botanic gardens well suited to support this strange plant outside of its natural range. 
  
 This plant is native to the tropical rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, and first became known to western science in 1878. In its natural habitat, the titan arum can grow up to 12 feet tall. Public viewing of this unique plant has occurred a limited number of times in the United States. The U.S. Botanic Garden previously displayed blooming titan arums in 2003, 2005 and 2007. The Garden currently has 14 accessions of the titan arum, so we hope to have another plant bloom in the coming years. 
  
 After the titan bloomed, Bill McLaughlin, plant curator at the U.S. Botanic Garden, cut through the spathe to collect pollen to send to the University of California, Santa Barbara for its titan arum, nicknamed Chanel, that was about to bloom. The greenhouse staff was able to apply the pollen from the U.S. Botanic Garden's male flowers to Chanel's female flowers while it was in bloom at the end of July. Once pollinated, the female flowers develop into bright orange-red fruits. The seeds inside the fruit can develop into a new corm. If the pollination is successful, there could be a blooming offspring in about a decade! ||||| Sara Bauleke, left, of Arlington, and Erica Heintz of Portland, Ore., take a look at the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the “corpse flower,” on display at the U.S. Botanic Garden. It is expected to bloom this week. (Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post) 
  
 Bizarre, lurid and simply huge, the world’s largest flower stands poised to do its Elvis act at the U.S. Botanic Garden. 
  
 As early as Monday or later in the week, its pleated crimson cape will peel back to reveal a central stalk with a secret weapon for drawing pollinators. The King may have had his gyrations, but the titan arum emits a stench designed to lure carrion insects from miles around. In this case, the stink is expected to entice thousands of humans, as word spreads that this rare event is unfolding in the garden’s ornate conservatory at the foot of the U.S. Capitol. 
  
 The garden is extending its hours until 8 p.m. so that more folks can get a view of this strange floral beast and perhaps get a whiff of its sickening scent, which doesn’t appear until after it has opened and reaches its worst the first night after flowering. 
  
 “Like a very dead elephant,” said Elliott Norman, the gardener who has been growing it since 2005, when it was the size of a pea. Its tuber alone may weigh as much as 90 pounds. 
  
 In the warm, muggy environment of the conservatory’s lush Garden Court, the flower is growing by the hour. Its height on Saturday was 5 feet 2 inches, and it had grown five inches by midday Sunday. It was noticeably plumper too, but as a steady stream of admirers came by hoping to see and smell it in its full glory, the titan arum made it plain that it will do its thing when it is ready. It had suddenly become Washington’s version of the Royal Baby Watch. 
  
 The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), on display at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington. (Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post) 
  
 “I was hoping to smell it,” said Nicole Dinion, 25, a member of the national rowing team who is based in Oklahoma City. She had cycled nine miles from Falls Church with her mom and stepfather to see the bloom. “I might come back tomorrow.” 
  
 Paige Gance, 22, a summer intern in the District and a recent graduate of Washington and Lee University, said she was “kinda bummed that it isn’t in bloom yet, but it’s pretty neat.” She arrived with her friend Zander Tallman, a rising senior at the same university. 
  
 “I don’t think I’ll ever get another chance to see one of these things,” she said. “Though I’m a bit nervous about how bad it smells.” 
  
 For botanical gardens, the arum’s appearance is a boon, as well as a money-spinner for those that charge admission (the U.S. Botanic Garden, at 100 Maryland Ave. SW, is part of the Capitol complex and is free to visit). Although the arum is not as rare in the West as it once was — this is the fourth display of an arum in Washington in the past 11 years (two of which were grown by the Smithsonian) — its appearance still has the capacity to draw crowds and media attention. “It’s the Botanic Garden’s panda,” said Norman. He was speaking Friday, the day after the giant was transported very carefully from the institution’s production greenhouses in Southeast Washington. Still furled but big and weird, the arum drew smiles and some eye-bulging glances from a gathering crowd. “Are you the grower?” a middle-aged woman asked Norman as she took a picture. “Congratulations.” 
  
 While pandas appear cuddly, the titan arum has a more pernicious and suggestive quality about it. (Its botanic name is Amorphophallus). It comes from the sultry, steamy jungles of Sumatra, and once it opens, it begins to pulsate with heat, so that its rotten smell convects up and away to distant dung and carrion beetles. It is sometimes called the “corpse flower,” and while a species of palm tree has a complex, candelabra-like inflorescence that extends much farther than that of the Sumatran giant, the titan arum ranks as the biggest unbranched bloom on the planet. 
  
 The actual size varies by individual and the age of its tuber or corm. The current blooming is the first flowering of this plant, but Norman, 66, is pleased with its size. His first arum, in 2003, was much smaller, but he has become more skilled at growing them. “I used to feed it dead mice two or three times a month,” he said. “Dead rodents — nothing like ’em.” 
  
 He has since employed the organic gardener’s standard blood, bone and feather meal, as well as a supplement for plants that grow in volcanic soils, as the arum, now having its own eruption, does so fittingly. 
  
 Adding to its strangeness is that its growth cycle is entirely unpredictable. It will send up a tall stalk with leaves that may last for 18 months and then die away. In the wild, it may bloom every three years; in greenhouse cultivation, the flower may appear every seven to 10 years. The gardener doesn’t know if the corm is producing a leaf stalk or a prized flower until the stem is well developed. Norman first noticed growth in April but couldn’t positively confirm it to be a flower until Monday of last week. 
  
 Seeds and transplants are available from specialty nurseries, but the arum’s size, difficulty of cultivation and need for hot, humid growing conditions mean that typically it is only grown by botanical institutions. 
  
 Ari Novy, the garden’s public programs manager, summed up its appeal: “Exotic, superlative, totally unpredictable and difficult to master technically. And with the stinky smell it grabs the public’s imagination,” he said. 
  
 “Many plants are lurid,” said plant curator William McLaughlin. “This is lurid off the charts.” 
  
 Officials advised fans to follow the Botanic Garden’s Web site, www.usbg.gov, to check the arum’s status through live-streaming video and time-lapse photos. 
  
 After it blooms, the flower will wilt — offering more opportunity for puerile humor — and the plant will return to the production facility, where it will join another titan arum, which has yet to bloom, and 10 seedlings that Norman is raising for future display. 
  
 “We are kind of glad it’s not so easy to grow this,” said Norman. “It’s not something you can put on your patio in the summer and bring it into the garage in winter, like a banana tree.” |||||
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In full bloom, the titan arum, also known as the "corpse flower," smells like a "very dead elephant," according to a gardener at the US Botanic Garden in DC. So why are so many people making a pilgrimage there to get a whiff? Probably because the flower blooming is a rare sight (and smell) to behold, reports the Washington Post. This 5-foot 7-inch specimen has been growing since 2005, and it's set to bloom any day now for the first time. And when it does, it will only last for 24 to 48 hours, the AP reports. The exotic plant has proven to be a massive tourist attraction for the Botanic Garden. "It’s the Botanic Garden’s panda," says the gardener. The garden has had to extend its opening hours as flower fans pour in hoping to see the plant in action, the Post reports. Those who'd prefer to catch the bloom minus the pong can watch all the action via a live webstream.