Smellanie the corpse flower has not bloomed yet! Tickets are still required to gain entry to the Wildlife Photography exhibition in the conservatory.
Around ten years after the first seeds were donated to the Botanic Gardens of South Australia, the first flower sprouted its stinky spadix in 2015.
Since then, a further 19 blooms have grown - that's 20 in a decade!
We have displayed five of these to the public. The remaining blooms have been used for research and propagation purposes.
You can see some of them through time lapse footage here:
2016 - Ganteng, Bicentennial Conservatory, Adelaide Botanic Garden
2017 - Ganteng + a leaf! Bicentennial Conservatory, Adelaide Botanic Garden
2021 - Mount Lofty Botanic Garden nursery
