The Corpse Flower: Behind the Stink | National Geographic

[@melissarmt7330]

It's amazing that a plant has evolved this way. How can it so accurately duplicate the smell of a rotting corpse in order to pollinate itself? This is just tremendous!

[@PillCozbee]

Melissa RMT Because it was created. Evolution is BS.

[@DiffrentDrummer]

PillCosby Ignorance is bliss. Enjoy yours.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

+PillCosby Of course! It all makes perfect sense, now! Some brilliant designer poofed a flower into existence to duplicate the scent of... a... rotting... corpse. Nope! Absolutely nothing at all wrong with this logic! Nothing at all!

[@PillCozbee]

lazyperfectionist1 Explain how you think this plant came to be.

[@rauljimenez8727]

The power of god sure works in mysterious ways, eh ?

[@pauline6717]

Haha this little guy is cute: "We don't really smell rotten flesh all that often" :D

[@raroreren]

Hhaa i get it

[@gsabo1000]

I bet it smells like Clinton, Humida, etc.....child eating

[@faustofeles8912]

I was thinking about the privilege of that statement. Glad that's the case!

[@pauline6717]

@@faustofeles8912 true!!

[@richardyoung9024]

My reply would be, “I hope not” 🥴

[@daiveedino]

The plant and the boy at the end were just great.

[@katkatkatkat463]

I love how he reassures people at the end: yes, you WILL smell the terrible odour, we know that's what you all came for!

[@jayadam2245]

I called it flower of patience, commitment and gratitude. They grew for years, opened for 2 nights, when they got enough what they want, they closed it back.

[@bumblebink4177]

i love how people travel from far and wide to smell something that stinks like a rotten corpse

[@greg230734]

I had a similar type growing in my garden when I lived in the Midlands of Rhodesia. It was nothing like magnificent as the Sumatran one. It grew close to the ground and when open, the flowers were a mottled brown and purple, and boy did it stink.

[@maggieatherton08]

I have been lucky enough to see a Corpse Flower at my local Zoo and it is beautiful!

[@swiftyXify]

Sounds like something you could give to your ex lover lol

[@alianajacobs5703]

lol

[@MA-yv8dw]

😂😂😂👏👏👏

[@yunhin9631]

Growing these are preety challenging and hard, you can get the Amorphophallus konjac or the voodoo lily the common cousin of the corpse flower it looks and smells just like it's titanic cousin, the difrence is that the voodoo lily is tall, skinny and has a smaller bloom, but it last longer, about 2-3 days, and it blooms faster, while it's cousin blooms once every like decade, the voodoo lily blooms once every year, and it's super easy to grow

[@charlescastle4533]

If you understand this reference, you're a real G

[@melissarivera7477]

swiftyXify awesome

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

I'd like to smell one, just so I could see how close it smells to rotting meat

[@deepfriedmackerel2263]

Come to indonesia 🇮🇩 I’ll show you around

[@suzanneraczka3760]

I had one bloom for the first time last spring- and I can tell you...it smelled like a dead body.

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

@@suzanneraczka3760 gross, I hate that smell. I hate going outside and smelling it and being like "what's that? Oh yeah thats the smell of death. I guess I should walk around my yard and see if there's such dead animal"

[@bigbirdmusic8199]

@@xINVISIGOTHx lol i know right how do so many of these people know what a corpse smells like

[@TheShawnster]

2:08 she said she didn't smell any bad odors but she had a tear rolling down her face from the stench...

[@nightynightshade]

TheShawnster lmfaoo 😂😂😂

[@RoseMary-gs6lt]

The smell gives me nausea. My grandma had one in her frontyard and it rained for a very long time, the next day it opened. We didn't know what it was and my cousin made me fear it makimg me think that it will grow legs amd eat me. I was like 7 when that happened. My grandpa, after it dried out, cut it off with a machete

[@abrahamg3354]

A corpse of a corpse plant lol

[@Vanguardkl]

Nice

[@MargaretsLight]

That is an awesome flower. Attracts the different other kind of pollinators. Would love to see that personally.

[@jostmz]

What it really does is farting every 10 years.

[@ardensity1175]

Or holding it all in for 10 years then only now letting it blow

[@HeryMelayu]

This corps flower come from my city - sumatra. I am really proud of

[@theblackbaron4119]

Just don't bring this one to a date. Not going to get you laid.

[@iseverynametakenwtf1]

2:09 didn't smell any bad odor but has tears falling

[@AdriansCreatures]

Where the tears?

[@iseverynametakenwtf1]

@@AdriansCreatures on her right cheek, the left side on the screen looking at her. Big ole croc tear

[@fftlmfao17]

Whether we know what a rotting corpse smells like or not, or even if we don't smell it all that often, that doesn't nullify the fact that our brain can recognize the smell as disgusting and putrid and something to avoid.

[@laskolasko]

This is the shit I subscribed to NationalGeographic for. Stuff like this, should always and ONLY be uploaded.

[@ronbohlouli1]

Do plants reason? Why rotting flesh, why not ripe fruit, at what point did the plant decide rotting flesh is the optimum odor to attract pollenating insects?

[@OliverTwistedd]

Ron Bohlouli well. I mean butterflies will legitimately drink blood so there seems to be some sort of science behind bugs liking smells from alive and dying things.

[@sunakonakahara222]

It could also attract bugs and insects because perhaps the soil in and of itself does not provide enough phosphates and nitrates that the plant needs to grow and flourish.

[@andrewcorson7813]

The plant didn't decide anything. It just so happened that it mutated and got that trait and it ended up working.

[@ganjaganja3811]

It's God's design

[@lisatinbliki5691]

Ron you are very intelligent. That is a very good question.

[@freakishlyfeline]

LOL the kid at 2:47 every now and then caught a little whiff and went WHOA! His enthusiasm haha xD

[@agent1193]

what a Flower 🙏❤️

[@mouhaahaahaa]

If I could have I say, I would request more plant life! fascinating to the extreme!

[@chacha2285]

How was it "discovered" by an Italian in the 1800's when Indonesians have seen that plant way before.

[@rockyroad179]

He said it was discovered to /Western science/ in the late 1800’s. Obviously Indonesians must’ve known about it before then.

[@marluxiaxemnassaix2272]

Cute flower

[@fargokatie]

lol the kid at the end

[@Dubois_tada]

Lmao "we dont really smell rotting flesh that often" *shrugs* 😅

[@MKDiva81]

so cool. I love science!

[@siobhanforshaw5359]

The literal translation made me chuckle 😂🤦🏻‍♀️. Amorphophallus titanum (a name that literally translates to "giant misshapen phallus").

[@TechXSoftware]

that kid "We don't smell rotten flesh all that often" you selling us something here, murder!!! XD

[@Buddha-2505]

We must do in every way to keep the speed of this super amazing plant for our next generation 's children 👍👍👍

[@nutier]

it was so impressive ! i have never seen this flower yet ; have a nice week !

[@fuxmaulder1]

"odoriferous emissions"

[@quuu1864]

Thanks for sharing your honest opinion with us Joseph. 🙂

[@pelicannoble3724]

I’m watching this in class right now

[@jerryamescua]

Out of all the actors I think the little boy was the best.

[@dipopapo]

I'm Indonesian and I remembered my middle high school have one of this in school greenhouse

[@foreva4eva385]

The boy at the end comment had me😂😂😂

[@dkchacha]

That kid at the end, so true... I dont know the smell of rotten flesh, and if people say that that flower smells like rotten flesh then it may be worthwhile to get to smell that plant and know

[@sometimessnarky1642]

You've never driven by roadkill or had a mouse die in your house?

[@juliettgray62]

Mr. Goodman:oh my sweet baby Jesus

[@MiningBlock]

it doesn't smell that bad, one just bloomed at my fathers college he works at and it does kind of smell like some type of roadkill, but I was even in a room with tons of lights and other plants and it wasn't that overpowering. It took 14 whole years for the plant to bloom and now it's just going to die after one night. it was incredible to see, truely a site to behold, the things a monster, at least 4 feet tall, we had a meter stick next to it and it was a bit bigger than that so my best estimate would be 4-6 feet. If you have a chance to see one, go see it, once in a lifetime chance to truely see an amazing plant

[@thalie0476]

Extremely beautiful... Pitty it smells bad. The video is awesome, beleive it or not i felt so sad when it died😟

[@thegamingchef3304]

Is this the same flower that was on Dennis the Menace lol.

[@BungMorgan]

In my country you guys may lucky too see this flower bloom, thats a good things of this flower

[@sluncevotsvete8918]

Last year i found this flowers at my grandmother's backyard.

[@carole7538]

The Nashville Zoo has one that just bloomed today! Going tomorrow to check it out.

[@GHD1972]

Very interesting plant. Seriously considering growing one!

[@fauxblondee]

GHD1972 you can't because I think they are endangered and they can be harvested for seeds, that one is from indonesia

[@khstar]

They had one of these on display in Texas but I never got the chance to see it.

[@dan339dan]

it's big, re-watch deserved for you

[@shelley-annthompson811]

Rosie! I miss you! saw you dying before my eyes and it brought tears...

[@purestqi]

shelley-ann thompson Jesus!

[@MrcBubba1]

Cool

[@CAYENNETAN]

Great. Now I want to grow one.

[@johnninfotv3428]

Proud . I'm Indonesian

[@TestTubeBabySpy]

the flower from dennis the menace

[@VampressOfDarkness]

+TestTubeBabySpy I thought it was! But didn't that one take a lot longer to bloom, as well as dying right away?

[@wearealljustclowns]

no its not

[@mhonskylopez2951]

reminds of the movie: little shops of horror

[@NjamZeBloxer]

Epic i am from indonesia sumatra

[@Thousandeyes85]

Why do they think describing the smell as "rotting flesh" is enlightening? I can't be the only one that has no idea what that smells like

[@michlgilbertclements5378]

The inside feels warmer than the outside to get the air to disperse the smell more.

[@madscientistshusta]

The corpse flower is why we have flowers and bees, they evolved bugs to become flowering insects which in turn revolved plants to flower inorder to mate.

[@alisaifff]

جميل

[@snbsixteen6stars201]

The flower uncle fester from the Addams family loves

[@AdriansCreatures]

That’s the joke

[@HakunaMatata009]

That one lived in abandoded area around my backyard in Sumatra, Indonesia. But it was not that big.

[@ShofianHariady]

That's why I love Indonesia

[@msluvbug13]

Lol “we weren’t that close” lol she already knows what the deal is.

[@badorastrome5418]

The smell from sweating crowded people close to each other in small area in the heat of summer is more disgusting than any other flower in the universe

[@saldada6928]

lmao.....true

[@wolfdogstinkus]

Most plants give off fragrance to attract insects, this one gives off a scent that attracts Jimmy Saville

[@kittysmith8959]

Two years late to this, but I'm dying at your comment 😂😂

[@jonbishop1385]

Just this last week we got Our first flower ---- Wait for it ------- After 25 years ! (north west of Ireland) Its growing outdoors and has survived all sorts of weather , especially rain . any one know why it took so long to give us a flower?

[@Vanguardkl]

Wow

[@audreya4075]

I’m going to see one tomorrow. I’m afraid to smell it lol

[@DonDineroo]

wow

[@24_sanketgolar96]

So this might be a flower from dinosaur age...

[@therealspookspeak]

There's a lot of that flower here in Indonesia.

[@jestrotytro6512]

My condoleances 😔

[@RahulRk-tr7ot]

​@@jestrotytro6512🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@keturahlove4500]

Interesting

[@sonika710]

i want see these flower

[@leahnnaa]

Other Flowers: Beautiful but Dangerous This Flower: *Beautiful but Disgusting* No hate by the way this flower is so beautiful 💖

[@KevinMartinez-it1if]

They can upload whatever they want.

[@pinkmonkeysrock11101]

We had one in Edmonton a few months back. Sad I missed it :(

[@larrybutler8562]

I can relate to this- a guy who worked for me was nicknamed Stinky - u can imagine why - he could clear a room in seconds - I used to travel with him and passengers near the restroom used to complain to the attendant that the toilet overflowed - not the toilet it was the Stink sitting across from it. one of many similar episodes. If this flower blooms anywhere near me there is no need for me to visit for a sniff...

[@nilamfathikha4686]

Indonesia🇮🇩

[@FuturaWatchingYou]

I wanna own one of those one day

[@TheSnipingphoenix]

There's a speciment in bogor botanical garden, west java, Indonesia. And iit's true the smell only comes out at night. I

[@febryhartanti8301]

There is this kind of flower existed but categorized as parasite in Sumatra, Indonesia, called Raflesia Arnoldi, still in the same species with Titan Arum 😁

[@tinkie3003]

Air is good looking

[@sebastianbagdasarian3280]

Sebastian you 😊

[@fredrictengstrom9522]

Hej This one I never met in The wild. Had a Few near shots. Hard to time if you have nt got BBC s resources. But I still feel it nobler to do things all by oneself. ❤

[@jiggzstarr]

Going to botanical gardens to smell this bad boy

[@crazypath573]

He said phallus, tee hee hee

[@LA553714fx]

are there any nice flowers as big as this?

[@deedildine8800]

Where can I buy one of these ??

[@TheAshleyKeer]

I want one in my front garden

[@CenturianEagle]

Where is this filmed? I swear I could hear a cardinal going “pew pew”

[@fk4835]

Sv Darmstadt 98!

[@woody1778]

Edmonton Alberta has a corpse flower in the Muttart Conservatories.

[@btsarmy1m948]

Can we get seeds of it

[@zerocurst6067]

Sumatra nasibmu kini

[@Leelicious1312]

I want to have this name when I come back as a superhero

[@vincentx915]

OK, we're coming back after midnight or 4 am.

[@Martomorba]

Rafflesia, Indonesia. (Most on Sumatra)

[@apiiidme]

marry emma heierman gerritsen it's not rafflesia, rafflesia doesn't have any roots it's kinda parasitic thats what makes it hard to grow on the lab or garden. Rafflesia also has rotting smell like this one, titan arum. This one is called titan arum (lit. translate as gigantic flower). It's another type of corpse flower native to sumatra, indonesia, just like rafflesia but titan arum is a different flower from rafflesia. Just for your information. Greetings from Java, Indonesia. :)

[@KiwiBirb63]

I would plant a secret corpse flower in an annoying person's room for a prank! XD

[@TankedGamers]

We do know what rotting flesh smells like. Not human flesh, of course, but I think most people have involuntarily smelled decaying roadkill sometime in their lives.

[@hobbyjalan2478]

The flower from Sumatra, Indonesia

[@fenirh]

How this "Bunga Bangkai" was moved from Indonesia?