titan arum

It’s something very rare and you have a chance to see one in Niagara Falls, Ontario – the world’s tallest flower.  It’s the Titan Arum and the Niagara Parks Floral Showhouse actually has six of them in various stages of growth. The first one will bloom within the next couple of days followed by another one a little over a week later.  The bloom lasts only a couple of days.  They look like a lily a

Titan Arum – it’s the largest flower in the world.  It grows only the Sumatra Island of Indonesia.  Its petals grow more than one and a half feet long and one inch thick and the flower weighs 15 pounds.  Sir Stamford Raffles, who founded the British colony of Singapore in 1819 discovered it while he and a friend were exploring the island.  Before that people who l...