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World's Largest Flower

Posted by michael on from the garnish-with-baby's-breath dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) produces the world's largest flower and is currently in bud at the University Botanic Gardens Bonn (Germany). As of Thursday, 12 a.m. it is set to break the old world record established in 1932. The old record was 267 cm while the new bud is now 273 cm and still growing."

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  1. What's the flower... by heliocentric · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What's the flower that has that really hudge bud, only opens like every few years, and smells of rotted flesh? If memory serves me it is from the amazon rain forest. Anyone remember the name of that thing?

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