Titan Arum: World's biggest and smelliest flower to bloom
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Check out a timelapse of the flower growing
Experts at the Royal Botanic Garden say one of the world's biggest - and smelliest - flowers is about to bloom in Edinburgh.
Titan Arum produced a bud several weeks ago, which has recently been growing at several centimetres a day.
But up until Friday morning it had not been clear if it would produce a leaf, or a flower.
It will be the first time the so-called "corpse flower" has ever blossomed in Scotland.
It gets its name from the horrible stench it produces, to attract insects to pollinate it.
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Martha
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