The allure of the corpse flower comes from its great size (it is the largest unbranched inflorescence in the plant kingdom), powerful stink, and fleeting presence. The Garden also plans to collect pollen from this plant to store for future use by other botanic gardens in this project. We hope to be able to acquire pollen based on this project to create diverse offspring. titanum collection to be added into the database. The USBG has gathered and submitted plant material from our A. This information will be used to ensure a broadening of the gene pool by creating diversity amongst new offspring by cross-pollination of diverse parent plants. titanum plants currently in botanic garden collections. The goal of the project is to identify and create a database of the genetic makeup of A. titanum conservation project that is underway, headed by Chicago Botanic Garden. As an offshoot from this, many botanic gardens are participating in a national A. Botanic Garden helped fund a conference in partnership with Botanic Garden Conservation International on aroid conservation in 2018 that was attended by botanic garden professionals from around the world. Diversity amongst the gene pool is important for successful conservation of endangered plants held in ex situ conservation collections such as at botanic gardens. Botanic Garden is participating in conservation work related to Amorphophallus titanum and aroids plants. The main reasons for the decline are logging and the conversion of the plant's native forest habitat to oil palm plantations. IUCN estimates the population has declined more than 50% over the past 150 years. The corpse flower ( Amorphophallus titanum) is listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with an estimation of fewer than 1,000 individuals remaining in the wild. It began opening in peak bloom on the evening of Tuesday, Jat a height of 104'. The plant is 16 years, making it the oldest in our collection. It is the fourth bloom for this plant, which previously bloomed in 2013, 2017, and 2019. The third bloom in 2022 was put on display in the Garden Court on June 23, 2022. The plant was sent to Longwood Gardens after the Flower Show, where it bloomed on June 24, 2022, at a height of 76'. The Garden sent a second bloom to Philadelphia in June 2022 as part of a special display spotlighting our aroid collecting in the Philadelphia Flower Show. Follow us on Facebook or Instagram for updates. The bloom opened on the evening of June 2, 2022, at a height of 97'. The plant was measured at 52' in height on that day.

The spadix was first seen on May 23, 2022. It was a sibling to a previous bloom that bloomed at 8 years old.

The first Amorphophallus titanum to bloom in 2022 was 9 years old, grown from seed. Photo at right shows peak bloom of the 2021 bloom. It was the fourth bloom for this plant, which bloomed in 2013, 2017, and 2019. It began opening in peak bloom on the evening of Tuesday, Jat a height of 104' and collapsed on Saturday, July 9, 2022. A corpse flower ( Amorphophallus titanum), also known as titan arum, recently bloomed at the U.S.

Finicky corpse flower