What flower blooms every 20 years?
Waiting around for a bloom the seemingly simple act of a corpse flower blooming can take up to 20 years. The corpse flower (amorphophallus titanum) – also called titan arum – is one of the largest and rarest flowering plants in the world. It can take up to a decade to produce a flowering structure and when it blooms is open for only 24 to 36 hours.Most Amorphophallus titanum plants take a long time to bloom typically 7 to 10 years before they open their first flower. After that, they only bloom once every 4 to 5 years.Amorphophallus Titanum, the largest flower in the world. It blooms once every 40 years only for 4 days! Also called the Corpse Flower because of the smell.