World’s largest flower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Oh Maria

  8 Jul 06, 20:59

  a specimen of the Titan arum, the world’s largest flower (below), and one that blossoms only once every 10 years.It lived up to its name; it is truly the Godzilla of flowers, looking like some strange surrealist sculpture or something made by the BBC special effects department. It stood 7ft (2m) tall, the elephant’s foot of a stem widening into a barrel-sized green bowl. This in turn flared out into the petal, which looked like nothing so much as a Spanish Flamenco dancer’s red dress. Finally, a phallic stamen of bright yellow stabbed upwards from within the petal’s folds.
  
  The scent of the T. arum is said to be like rotting flesh; it is pollinated by flies attracted to what they assume is a cadaver
  
  
  
  
  
  
• ^tamago^

  8 Jul 06, 21:03

  not rafflesia ah...
• the.owl

  9 Jul 06, 09:34

  I CHALLENGE YOU TO MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
• moongster

  9 Jul 06, 10:04

  The largest "true" flower is still Rafflesia. This Titan Arum is largest cluster of flowers.
  
  If u're interested, here's a link with more info: http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/TitanArum.htm
• MrFugue

  9 Jul 06, 10:14

  wha it seems like this flower is only found in india
  
  
• Rejected

  9 Jul 06, 11:03

  comfirm smelly..
• OasisBlue

  9 Jul 06, 11:21

  Originally posted by moongster:

  The largest "true" flower is still Rafflesia. This Titan Arum is largest cluster of flowers.
  
  If u're interested, here's a link with more info: http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/TitanArum.htm

  cluster? i dun see cluster
• laurence82

  9 Jul 06, 11:30

  What it got to do with India or Ash Rai?
  
  Or maybe, its as smelly as Ash Rai?
• ditzy

  9 Jul 06, 12:26

  I'm astonished you never mentioned the flower originates from india.