Thousands of Swiss birth will be a huge, smelly flower


Thousands of plant lovers arrived Saturday in the Swiss city of Basel to see a giant, stinky flower that will bloom for the first time in 17 years. Continue reading the printed article

Botanical Garden Basel 10,000 people expected to see their Amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, in its full glory before they wither on the Saturday or Sunday.

The flower emits a strong smell of rotting flesh to attract insects that help pollination, but that drove the audience.

The flower of two meters tall (6.6 feet) is native to Indonesia's Sumatra island and the last that flourished in Switzerland was 75 years ago.

Worldwide, there have been only 134 blooms from aquaculture.


by Gabrielle Muller

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