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 amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, bloomed at san diego botanic garden on october 22, 2023, at 3 pm! It’s the world’s largest flower, famous for its terrible smell that attracts insects that help pollinate it. Most corpse flowers take 7-10 years to bloom for the first time and then bloom every 4-5 years.Nicknamed the corpse flower due to its rancid smell of rotting flesh, this plant and its extraordinary bloom are a rare occurrence as most require seven to ten years to produce their first blooms, and typically bloom only every four to five years thereafter.