World's Largest Flower Titan Arum Blooms After Half a Decade of Waiting

After five years, Amorphophallus Titanum, the world largest flower, has blossomed in a park in Tokyo for the first time, according to indiatimes.

It is six feet tall in Jindai Botanical gardens in Chofu, Japan. The authorities have extended their visiting hours as tourists flock here to see the rare bloom flower for just two or three days. The corpse flower smells of rotting meat and opens up for only a short time.

It can be compared to the rotting meat that draws flies and beetles in rainforests, western Sumatara, Indonesia. The plant grows 1,200 feet above sea level. Yet, according to International Union for Conversation of Nature, it is a 'vulnerable' species, threatened by "widespread deforestation".

The flower blooms just three or four times in its 40-year life, and only for two to three days, so that experts feel that Friday will be the last day for visitors to admire it.

The last time the species flowered in a public garden was in July, 2010, according to news.