this plant took us ten years to bring it into flower and it has only actually has one night that it can get pollinated. in the wild, it can t the flower can t pollinate itself, so it needs to engage an insect to actually bring the pollen to it, so an insect may be in a two day old flower, get covered in pollen and then, it thinks it s going to lay its eggs on a rotten bit of meat, so it actually comes, brings the pollen to it and as it is going through the flower looking for somewhere to lay its eggs, it actually deposits the pollen, so it actually only has that one night that it actually can get pollinated. if it doesn t get pollinated that night, it could be another 3 5 years time. it s not native to australia but is it now growing in australia? yeah, it s only native to sumatra, the only place in the world that it occurs naturally, and we are conserving it in our collections here. and back in 2006, we received three seeds, which we then germinated. and from those three seeds, we
the smell around the flower, it actually pushes it away from the flower as far as possible. so, as people were lining up to come down to see the flower, they can smell it when they were probably 100m away. you can actually smell it outside our conservatory probably more than you could inside, so it s quite remarkable, actually, how it pushes away from the flower. yes, we re seeing some brilliant pictures of the flower there and the queues of people going past it. what is the purpose of its odour? so, it s all about pollination. so, this plant took us ten years to bring it into flower and it has only actually has one night that it can get pollinated. so in the wild, it can t the flower can t pollinate itself, so it needs to engage an insect to actually bring the pollen to it, so an insect may be in a two day old flower, get covered in pollen and then, it thinks it s going to lay its eggs on a rotten bit of meat, so it actually comes, brings the pollen to it and as it is going through
to sumatra, the only place in the world that it occurs naturally, and we are conserving it in our collections here. and back in 2006, we received three seeds, which we then germinated. and from those three seeds, we ve actually been able to flower it 11 times. but the exciting thing about this last flowering for us is actually, in 2013, we set up a propagation trial to see whether we could propagate it by leaf cuttings. this is the very first one that we ve actually propagated that we started ten years ago. so, if you you can propagate it by leaf cuttings. therefore, amateur gardens gardeners could maybe grow one in their back garden? yeah, so, it s not an easy plant to cultivate it needs to have that warm, tropical environment. so even here in south australia, you wouldn t be able to grow them outdoors, so we grow them in a climate controlled glasshouse. crosstalk. ..constant temperature through the year so, yeah. if someone in england actually had a conservatory, it is possible
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it feel a little queasy. the endangered titan arum or corpse plant has just bloomed for the first time in years, but has a smell that s been likened to dead rats. matt coulter is a horticulture curator at the adelaide botanic gardens and told me more about how popular the plant has been. we ve had cases people have been lined up for 2.5 hours to actually come and see it and to smell it, yeah, it s quite an amazing plant. but, yeah, it s quite interesting that people want to actually come and smell something that s quite vile. so how strong is this smell and from how far away can you smell it? basically, it only itjust only smells for two days and the first night that it starts to open is when it s at its strongest. and the interesting thing about the smell, it actually pulses, so it s notjust the smell around the flower, it actually pushes it away from the flower as far as possible. so as people were lining up to come down to see the flower, they could smell it when they were pro