What flower takes 7 years to bloom?
It takes seven to ten years for a single corpse flower to gather enough energy to begin its bloom cycle. The garden began collecting titan arums in 2003, as part of a worldwide conservation effort to preserve the species. Know the foul-smelling (like a rotting carcass) corpse plant that blooms once every 30-40 years titan arum, (amorphophallus titanum), also called corpse flower is a herbaceous flowering plant of the arum family (araceae). This flower is known for its massive foul-smelling inflorescence (cluster of flowers).