Smellanie is in bloom! We will open at 7.00pm for our evening viewing. The queue will close at 10pm. Find our visitor information here. Due to an Extreme Fire Danger warning, Mount Lofty Botanic Garden will be closed on Saturday 24 January.
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
