City’s smelly ‘stand-up’ wilts at last
Can you rise to Horace’s challenge?
A GIANT smelly flower that attracted more than 16,000 visitors to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, has finally wilted after standing upright for a record eight nights.
The Amorphophallus titanum burst into bloom on August 1 for only the second time in Scotland.
The plant, 83 inches tall and known as the “corpse flower” because of the “dead meat” smell it emits to attract pollinators, was only expected to stand for one or two days.
Visitors joked it was “the best stand-up at the Edinburgh Festival”.
Experts who pollinated the rare specimen are unsure if it will flower again in the future, although they hope to cultivate its offspring.
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