The elephant foot yam blooms once every few years. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - A big, foul-smelling flower of an exotic plant known as the elephant foot yam has fully bloomed over the weekend in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.blooms once every few years and the flower typically lasts for at most three days before it starts to wilt.
Mr John Lee, 51, chanced upon the corpse flower – so called for the stench it emits – on Feb 26 during a stroll through the Healing Garden in the Gardens.“I recognised the shape of the flower from afar and was excited to see that it was really a corpse flower,” said Mr Lee, a wildlife photographer. Dr Choo said visitors should refrain from touching, stepping and damaging the elephant foot yam plant, including other plants and trees in the surrounding area.
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