VIDEO: Watch a corpse flower stunningly bloom at Gage Park Greenhouse
- Michael Kras
- 20 Mar 2021
The Tropical Greenhouse in Hamilton’s Gage Park plays host to an exciting variety of gorgeous, fascinating, and exotic plants you won’t see anywhere else locally.
One of these plants is the Corpse Flower, otherwise known as a Titan Arum; a massive plant that also happens to be one of the world’s largest and rarest flowering structures.
If you didn’t have a chance to visit the Tropical Greenhouse during the Corpse Flower bloom, City Staff captured a time-lapse of it’s bloom. Watch: https://t.co/bX8mCEUyL2 #HamOnt
— City of Hamilton (@cityofhamilton) March 18, 2021
Appropriately named, corpse flowers are also identified for their pungent inflorescence, often compared to the scent of rotting flesh; a smell emitted to attract carrion-eating insects and flesh flies carrying pollen.
The plant is known to grow rapidly, with the Gage Park Tropical Greenhouse noting that its resident corpse flower is growing at a rate of more than an inch daily. At its fastest, the plant is known to grow up to 15-18 centimetres in a day.
Currently, the greenhouse’s staff is eagerly tracking the corpse flower – which was gifted to the greenhouse by Niagara Parks in 2019 and has been named ‘Kramer’ – and waiting to see if it will ultimate bloom into a flower this year or simply grow into a leaf.
To give a sense of this fascinating plant’s considerable growth, the Gage Park Tropical Greenhouse has published a video showing a time lapse of Kramer’s growth in a month’s time between January 26th and February 27th, 2021.
It’s pretty jaw-dropping to see just how much the corpse flower can grow in a relatively short amount of time, so check out the full time-lapse video below and read more about the Gage Park Tropical Greenhouse’s corpse plant on the city website!
Lead image courtesy of City of Hamilton
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