Admire the huge 75-year-old corpse

After 75 years of waiting, caregivers of giant Titan Arum flowers have the opportunity to admire the first flower.

Planted in 1936 at the University of Basel (Switzerland), on April 22, the new Titan Arum flower blossomed the first flower. However, Titan Arum is not a flower that has a sweet scent as many people expect, but smells like a corpse, so many people call Titan Arum a 'corpse flower'. This 'scent' will last about 3-4 days, people who stand away from even kilometers can smell this unpleasant smell but it is especially attractive to insects that come to pollinate.

It is known that Titan Arum flower is about 2.44 m high. Titan Arum originated in the rainforest in Sumatra, is the flower without the largest branch in the world and only blooms 2-3 times in life, each blooming must be apart for several decades , thus The festival of admiring flowers is very few. Titan Arum has a unique characteristic that is to bloom before the leaves grow, after the flowers wither and fall, the new leaves grow.

David Attenborough is the first person in the world to record Titan Arum's flowering process, the name of this flower is also set by him.

Although Titan Arum flowers can be cultivated artificially, there are only 12 trees in the UK royal garden in London today and because the survival rate of trees is very low and it is difficult to produce flowers every time Titan flowers Arum blooms all attract the attention of many visitors.