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Amorphophallus gigas
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Amorphophallus gigas

Amorphophallus gigas is a plant in the arum family Araceae, native to Sumatra. It is also known as Amorphophallus brooksii. It resembles its near relatives Amorphophallus titanum and Amorphophallus decus-silvae in having a very large spadix surrounded by a very large spathe. In these species the inflorescence can be up to 3.4 m (11 ft) in height, has the smell of rotting flesh, and is fly pollinated. According to Bown, the record specimen was 4.36 m (14.3 ft) in height, of which 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) was the spadix. The tuber, a corm, is second in size only to A. titanum at up to 70 kg (11 st 0 lb) in weight.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 348336.