In 2025 the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney was graced with a rare event - the blooming of a plant to die for, the Bunga Bangkai (Indonesian for Corpse Flower), Amorphophallus titanum.
Corpse Flowers have the tallest flower-spike in the world, and attract pollinators (mainly flies and carrion beetles) by mimicking the heat and scent of a rotting corpse!
With only around 300 of these amazing and beautiful plants left in the wild, our collection of Corpse Flowers is an important part of conservation work to save endangered plants like Purticia from goin extinct.
Botanical illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
