The plant, which is also known as the corpse flower, had only bloomed in Canada on four occasions prior to this week, and never before at the Toronto Zoo, the site of this latest milestone. The pinnacle of the horticultural career is this flower,” Gellatly said. The most frequent rate at which a corpse flower blooms is once a decade, and the zoo didn’t expect this particular flower to flourish for another four years at the earliest. Only 200 or so have ever bloomed in collections around the world, Gellatly said. Sue Lavery, a member of the Toronto Zoo, was travelling through Sumatra with a friend last year and just missed seeing a corpse flower bloom.

Source: National Post September 14, 2018 21:56 UTC