Time-lapse Video of Titan Arum Bloom, July 2007

[TheLoneJester]

At 2:28 another flower blooms to the right of it.

[zee339]

i was at this very botanical garden.  i was thrown out for dumping my cigarette ashes in the flower.

[charlierome]

Really interesting to watch! I'd like to see more rare botany videos

[5450daniel]

How much is the titan arum worth??????????

[djvdwolf]

don't know but i think a lot

[Fosters4Beer]

Thrilla,

The "corpse-like" smell attracts and uses flies for pollination purposes. Flys are the reproductive vector for the corpse flower, the smell attracts them/pollen sticks to there carapace, similar to bees attraction to the bright colors of flowers in most common plants. This is a marvelous adaptation.

[ThrillaDaMcColdKilla]

this thing looks prehistoric.. is it? and whats the point of it smelling? scare animals away?

[raymundojoel]

i live near the berkeley botanical garden and have gone to see the arum bloom twice, with no luck...thanks to the photographer, maybe next time i'll get there at the right moment...