What flower blooms every ten years?
Known for its horrible smell, this large plant only blooms for 24-36 hours, every 10 years. It blooms once every 40 years only for 4 days! Also called the Corpse Flower because of the smell.The Corpse Flower is a rare, exotic plant with flowers blooming just once every nine years at minimum, and sometimes, there are decades between blooms. Not only is the Corpse flower one of the rarest in the world, but it is also known to be one of the largest flowers in the world.While the corpse flower’s bloom is short-lived, the plant itself can live for 40 years or more. It spends much of its life cycle as a dormant underground tuber. The corpse flower is native to the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia and was first reported in 1878.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.