The flower should last just as long as the election campaign; any similarities drawn from the fact that this flower attracts pollinators by a smell of carrion and looks like putrid flesh and any current political campaign is purely co-incidental …
The first flowering in Sydney of the world’s biggest flower has the Royal Botanic Gardens in a state of high excitement. The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), with its giant flower, will be on display for just a few days – peaking around 7-8 October. …
FIG. Amorphophallus titanum illustrated in Curtis’ Botanical magazine, 1891
It’S big, it’s smelly and it looks distinctly phallic. For only the second time in Australia, a rare Titan Arum – otherwise known as Amorphophallus titanium, the world’s biggest flower – has blossomed.
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